Control Quotes

• When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.

  

  John Scalzi
  • Control
  • Communication

• Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

  

  David Price
  • Control
  • Party

• Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.

  

  Abram Hoffer
  • Wealth
  • Research
  • Companies

• After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.

  

  Cherry Jones
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.

  

  David Wenham
  • World
  • Career
  • Control

• I just couldn't imagine hitting a child. But in 'The Slap' it's an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself - would you step in if a child was out of control?

  

  Jonathan LaPaglia
  • Control

• More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • Control
  • Rock

• I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan... We will defend ourselves on every front, defensively and offensively.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • People
  • Control
  • River

• They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery.

  

  David R. Brower
  • People
  • Control

• We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Respect

• When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen
  • Believe
  • Control
  • Worry

• We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

  

  Keith Miller
  • People
  • Jesus
  • Religious

• In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Life
  • Career
  • Play

• Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

  

  Brit Marling
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Control

• I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Fun
  • Control

• Human-induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Reality
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Control
  • Focus
  • Breathe

• It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • May
  • Change
  • Environment

• I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Words
  • Scary
  • Drunk

• If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

  

  Mariano Rivera
  • Good
  • Control

• You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

  

  Foster Friess
  • You
  • Control
  • Circumstances

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