Quotes About Control

By releasing control over circumstances, you gain more control over your life.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.

I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.

I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.

Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe—I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.

If there was one thing I'd learned, it was that you were responsible for your own ship. You had to look after the engine and make sure the plane was in order and ready to be flown. You were in charge of plotting your course. When you were in the pilot's seat, it was your hand on the throttle, no one else's. If your oil ran out or you lost your engine or the engine caught fire and you had to crash, you were the one saving yourself. No one else could do it for you.