Quotes About Control

Watches are so named as a reminder — if you don't watch carefully what you do with your time, it will slip away from you.

Too much emotion is like none at all.

politics are the curse of the Navy!

Corruption, my boy, makes the world go round.

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

To be sure that we are not just falling for the Halo Effect, we really need a different measure of performance altogether—one that assesses individual skill directly rather than by inferring it from outcomes that might be determined by forces beyond the individual's control.

In other words, the shift from "predict and control" to "measure and react" is not just technological—although technology is needed—but psychological.

In the Arab world, censorship follows speech. In America, censorship precedes speech.

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

A little pot boils easily.

Success at anything will always come down to this; focus and effort, and we control both.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used--but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.

My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That's when, 'Why me?' becomes a theme song.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.

Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.