Never worry about what you can’t control…Focus on what you can.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is...

It’s an illusion, control,” Naomi said. “You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is...

The docking was conducted on autopilot without any incident. The final approach went on so smoothly that the Mission Control gave the permission for the docking ahead of schedule.

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She’d count to four between each...

You don’t have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

It’s like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that’s the way you have to control...

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

There was no warning, … She had her cruise control set at 75, then all of the sudden traffic stopped.

Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken the place...

The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.

We’ve got to learn how to handle it with our crowd control and understand the responsibility that we have to the safety and well-being of our guests. If this fine draws attention to that fact,...

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you’re dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings – and you need...

At halftime, we decided that we were going to come out and battle. You can’t always control the shots going in, but you can control your effort.

He who leaves the plants in a garden to themselves will soon find to his surprise that the garden is overgrown by weeds and that even the basic character of the plants has changed. If...

The overman…Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life’s terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Love isn’t about predictions or behavioural markers. It just happens, and you have no control.

The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border.

And then there was Lydia.Lydia who had hurtled into his life – into their lives – with hair like fire, eyes like amethysts and a fuck-me scent so palpable that he’d betrayed the only woman...

Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it’s great that I can still do that, but you know, you don’t really have a lot of control over things, so it’s real...

The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you...

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

It was basically a storage room, and (the fire) went up into the roof. The fire was under control in about 15 minutes.

We’ve become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.While the media elite declare what to think,I’ll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

We both loved her. And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to.

She was in control of her life, even though it seemed she wasn’t. All she had to do was take the steering wheel and start driving.

Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded from the dominant symbolic order. However, since the 1990s, post-modern and post-structural theory...

There lies a faith in the absence of control.

Let me tell you about gods,” said Wiggin. “No matter how smart or strong you are, there’s always somebody smarter or stronger, and when you run into somebody who’s stronger and smarter than anybody, you...

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

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...

Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else’s life when you can’t stick to your own goals and resolutions?

I got a pretty good check on that guy, and he lost control of the puck.

You have an inning in a game when you battle with, whether it’s your control or getting the ball down or whatever. They made me pay for it, but I wouldn’t take back anything I...

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

Pizarro was nice and smooth. He took control of the huddle, took control of the situation so I thought he did a very good job. He made the plays when he needed to make them.

Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician’s karmic calamity.

Fabian is the only one I saw pitch last season. He pitched well against us in a couple games. Control problems got after him a couple other times. He needs to work on keeping his...

The mind is powerful, and you have more control than you think.

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the...

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous…To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let...

I produce the records. I don’t hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will – for commercial purposes.

Given all that lies beyond mycontrol, I obsess about the few things I can control