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Quotes About Control

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.
~ Paul Saffo
Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.
~ Donald A. Norman
They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.
~ Unknown
I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.
~ Maya Angelou
Control, edit and distill.
~ Van Day Truex
My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
~ Olivier Theyskens
I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.
~ Maya Lin
Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.
~ Thomas Haden Church
The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
~ Marquis de Sade
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others
~ Bertrand Russell
You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.
~ Napoleon Hill
i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Habit is stronger than desire.
~ Mike Murdock
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
~ Dallas Willard
The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing
~ Damon Knight
The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
~ Thomas Sowell
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.
~ Stonewall Jackson
Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
~ John Dewey
This missile test reflects India's mindset, ... India's desire to control the subcontinent will never become a reality.
~ Unknown
Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.
~ Giulio Andreotti