Quotes About Control

I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

Human-induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

I used to watch 'The Bachelor,' but it's lost my interest now. The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time.

Reality TV is hard. You put yourself out there and you have no control over which parts they show (and don't show). And you are shooting sometimes 15 hour-days for months and months. It's exhausting - physically and mentally.

We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

I find the older I get, the more I realize that time is really an illusion. Its like something we created, a constraint that we created so that we feel like we have control of something we have absolutely no control of.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

I've realized that I can't control what the hell everyone else is gonna do. People are crazy. People want different things.

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

When you're afraid, you look to amass power to defend yourself, not realizing that can also be corrupting.

Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.

What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show.

Once cyber crosses into the realm of the physical, then it's a physical attack, but it starts with cyber. And the idea of a cyber attack being able to take control of machines - that becomes a scary process.

I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.

We are for reasonable and sensible gun ownership so long as it's responsible in the way that criminals can't get it.