Quotes About Control

I dunno - there's always a beast that comes out whenever I want it to... I can control the beast and everything, but it comes out when I want to.

Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

I'm the alpha parent most of the time, but bedtime is a completely different animal.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.

I think it's always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Lucid dreaming is dreaming but you being aware that you're doing it.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

The WBC title belongs to me.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

I always felt once it goes into movie land, the book belongs to someone else.

Your time here on this earth, it belongs to you.

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

Since many of us use food for emotional comfort, especially when we feel anxious or depressed or even just bored, this little exercise in slowing things down and paying careful attention to what we are doing illustrates how powerful, uncontrolled, and unhelpful many of our impulses are when it comes to food, and how simple and satisfying it can be and how much more in control we can feel when we bring awareness to what we are actually doing while we are doing it.

The more improbable the situation and the greater the demands made on [the climber], the more sweetly the blood flows later in release from all that tension. The possibility of danger serves merely to sharpen his awareness and control. And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities.

The possibility of danger serves merely to sharpen his awareness and control. And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities.

Westerberg's latter conjecture, as it turned out, was a fairly astute analysis of the relationship between Chris and Walt McCandless. Both father and son were stubborn and high-strung. Given Walt's need to exert control and Chris's extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable