You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals

Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn’t. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?

I think it is probably a good general description of American foreign policy that we don’t have as much control as we think we do.

One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can’t be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability...

Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that’s not freedom! That’s control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understands freedom to be the freedom to take risks, the freedom to do...

I can’t even think that far ahead, because I can’t control what happens, and there are a lot of things that can happen. If it works out that way, that would be terrific. If it doesn’t, I’m grateful for the opportunity I’ve gotten here.

We really need to work on the things that we can control. It all starts defensively. We can control our effort, our talking and our ability to understand what we are trying to do out there. We need to just get back to the basics.

We can probably see control.

Control…. is not what we need.What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees – flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.

We are advising banks to review credit quality and exercise greater control on credit.

When they say men should take responsibility, they really mean men should take control … that men should be heads and masters of their families, and women should take a back seat. That is a very bad message as far as I am concerned.

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through whichonly a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes...

[Hardy] had a nice day today. She was strong. She pretty much was in control the whole day.

I play to win and that is about it. My job is to stop the puck. I can’t control anything else.

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It’s dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.

You can’t retire to weakness — you’ve got to learn to control strength.

You can’t make me do anything. I’m an adult. And I’m much stronger than you.””Upper body strength isn’t everything; I have wiles.””Not really.””Yes, I do. I’m a woman. Women have wiles.””Some women. It’s not like every woman is born wily.””If I don’t have wiles, she said, “how come I can get you to do most...

Your motivations–get that promotion, throw the best parties, run for public office–aren’t impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what you focus on. An individual’s goals figure prominently in the theories of personality first developed by the Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. According to his successor David McClelland, what Friedrich Nietzsche called “the will...

We have to try to control spending in other areas and limit spending. Certainly, it’s nothing that impacts the public right off the bat. If this were to continue for a couple years it could be a problem,

Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.

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.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

advice” in a spirit of love and helpfulness, but we can be much more helpful when we help them to find their own ways of changing things. It can be incredibly freeing to spend an entire day not looking to try to change the behaviors, beliefs, or attitudes of other human beings. If we approach...

I try not to worry about things that I can’t control.

Manufacturers have the option to keep their process control system separate. We do not recommend giving a manager a desktop machine to do e-mail while that person is managing the production network, because one slip up and you can give somebody outside the company control of the system.

We had control most of the game and beat them by 30 a few weeks before.

he who feeds you, controls you

As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn’t control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.

Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

Don’t be a creation of circumstances, create your dreams, take full control of your destiny.

I think it would be a disadvantage to lose local control.

It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch...

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

When our will is strong and aligned with Divine intent, there is nothing we cannot do or be. With power and guidance flowing through us, Life becomes an effortless dance as we relinquish control and limitation and allow our Spirit Within to express itself.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself… I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether it was a burden or a blessing, it was hers to keep. She’d known better than anyone what this house needed; lately it’d become one of the few aspects of her...

The world you once knew is no more for you.

Our results were driven by a combination of strong top-line growth, continued expense control and improved gross margin performance that reflects the smallest decline we have seen in nearly three years,

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

We’d like to have some control over (our destiny). It will be very difficult to do, because we know that we have to play great teams, but that’s what we would like to happen.

Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Four or five times during a performance of this piece, it is almost impossible to control oneself. I mean for the audience and for the performers. It is such a dramatic and moving piece.

He kind of thrives on pressure, he kind of thrives on big moments. He took control of the game, under control. And that speaks volumes of a player when he can take control of game and do it under control. I think that means the guy’s really growing up and becoming a special player.

The idea is to give people flexible and intelligent control mechanisms so that they can centrally manage, deploy, and get status of deployments while being able to work with it interactively or integrate it with existing systems such as a workflow system or a database of content.

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

The remote control changed our lives, … The remote control took over the timing of the world. That’s why you have road rage. You have people who have no patience, because you got immediate gratification. You got click, click, click, click. If it doesn’t explode within three seconds, click click, click.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.