Quotes About Control

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born?

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

You should have desires, but the desires should not have you.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration.

He says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.