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Quotes About Control

We will never hear about people's Bitcoin accounts being frozen or seized by a government agency.
~ Roger Ver
Everybody gets frustrated when they lose. But at the end of the day I can control what I do. Whatever team I'm on, let's roll.
~ Eric Bledsoe
There's so much to benefit from being able to control your mind in certain situations and it just keeps you even-keel all the time when things are going well and when they're not. That's one thing that I've always had a bit of a tough time doing. When I get up, I get excited. When I'm down, I get pretty frustrated.
~ Brad Marchand
Sometimes when I get frustrated and ticked off, there's a little more fire there. It can also get you in trouble if you're not careful, but I think within reason it can help you.
~ Kirk Cousins
It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.
~ Terry Southern
I don't like feeling like it's not up to me when I'm working and when I'm not. Not feeling complete freedom... that's frustrating.
~ Emily Meade
I can't control my frustration.
~ Hasso Plattner
I can't let my frustration get the best of me.
~ Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.
~ Raine Maida
There are things out of my control and that fuels my fire.
~ Jessica Long
I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
~ Gabrielle Union
When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us.
~ Courtney A. Kemp
We also need a fund that can say 'no'.
~ Rodrigo Rato
Violence against women is fundamentally about power.
~ Antonio Guterres
Lo importante no es lo que nos hace el destino, sino lo que nosotros hacemos de él.
~ Florence Nightingale
If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY
~ Florence Scovel-Shinn
You cannot control your imagination's pictures. Of
~ Ford Madox Ford
The repressions of the passionate drive them mad.
~ Ford Madox Ford
What did we want with an Empire! It
~ Ford Madox Ford
You know the man on the stage who throws up sixteen balls at once and they all drop into pockets all over his person, on his shoulders, on his heels, on the inner side of his sleeves; and he stands perfectly still and does nothing. Well, it was like that.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.
~ Foucault Michel
No hay peor pérdida de tiempo que la de contar las horas ¿que se consigue con eso? Y no hay mayor quimera que quererse gobernar a golpe de campana y no por la razón y el buen sentido.
~ Francois Rabelais
Any institution that distributes the resources men and women depend upon for survival can exert control over them: the occasion of giving vitally needed assistance can easily become the occasion of inculcating the work ethic, for example, and of enforcing work itself, for those who resist risk the withdrawal of that assistance.
~ Frances Fox Piven