Quotes About Control

I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.

Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.

Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.

My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

The bigger your platform gets - it kind of feels like being Godzilla sometimes. You make a slight move and you can accidentally knock over a building. It's a tough thing to navigate.

I don't think the government needs to be frightened of the banks in the slightest.

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

When I dabble in watching the news and reading about current events, I tend to get a future negative view, and that's something I've dealt with through music. It's quite possible I'm slightly paranoid. But I'd say making music is an expression of feelings of helplessness and lack of control that I think a lot of people can relate to.

Censorship is a really big deal, but online you don't have anything. You have slightly more freedom.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

I can slip a punch, not by three inches, but by a centimetre. Just have it brush past me. And raise an eyebrow at the same time.

When a big club takes the lead at home, then they cannot let it slip and be turned over.

You can't just say, 'This team's going to win,' or 'This team's going to lose.' Anything can happen. So what you can control is winning your game as much as possible. If you don't do that, and then the other team has a chance to lose, and they lose, and you didn't go about it the right way, now you just let that slip.

A secret control slip is a wonderful invention. It sculpts and lifts the bum and smooths the hips.

When I go out there untethered, the feelings that I slip I die totally overwhelms me. I am after the feeling of total control. I'm after that in all of life, and for now that's how I find it.

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

Sometimes you can get sloppy and control the ball right at your feet, and that gives the defenders a chance.

I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.

I think I have been able to slow down a little bit and really work on different things... I think I improved on being a leader on the court. Controlling the game, controlling the pace... that is where I have grown.

If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.

When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.