Control Quotes

• Not that I don't care about winning or I don't care about doing well, but I have to care less about the things that happen that are outside of my control.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Control
  • Winning

• The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.

  

  Fred Tomaselli
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

  

  Avi Rubin
  • People
  • Control

• I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Work
  • Control
  • Environment

• I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

  

  Little Richard
  • People
  • Light
  • Try

• When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • May
  • She
  • Power

• A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

  

  Lev Yilmaz
  • People
  • Control

• I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Power

• I think when Madonna did sexy stuff, she looked more in control. And I think it looked more like she was breaking boundaries. Today, it feels like it's pandering to everything that's wrong, and I don't think it's nice, especially for young girls.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • She
  • Today
  • Nice

• The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Mind
  • Red
  • Green

• The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Money
  • Control

• While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Work
  • Health
  • Color

• I cannot imagine any circumstances under which David McNarry would be back in the Ulster Unionist Assembly group of MLAs when I have control of the whip.

  

  Mike Nesbitt
  • Imagine
  • Circumstances
  • Cannot

• I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'

  

  Marc Platt
  • School
  • Business
  • Remember

• A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

  

  Marie Stopes
  • Civilization
  • Conception
  • Barbaric

• The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do what they were told and then the music suffers because of that dynamic and now there's the power of the download.

  

  Joss Stone
  • Control
  • Scared
  • Labels

• Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Long
  • Children

• We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Done
  • Night
  • Control

• On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

  

  Boris Spassky
  • Time
  • World
  • Hand

• We have full creative control, we have a giant audience that loves what we do, and we can make whatever we want.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Control

• What it is controlled cool, in a way. Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Way
  • Cool
  • Defeat

• This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self? What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r! Aye: frailty, thy name-- belike--is Force.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Self
  • Names
  • Fickle

• My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • God
  • Live
  • Control

• For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology (drugs), electrical pulses, and so on. But none of these technologies are precise. With optogenetics, we can aim light at a single cell, or a set of cells, and turn just that set of cells on or off.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • People
  • Different
  • Light

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