Quotes About Control

When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.

By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you're doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don't do this.

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

Time doesn't obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.?

I can fall asleep at any time and wake up at any time.

We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.

No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.

But hunger is pride's master...

I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.

As a rule it will listen to neither a dull speaker nor a bright one. It refuses all persuasion. The dull speaker wearies it and sends it far away in idle dreams; the bright speaker throws out stimulating ideas which it goes chasing after and is at once unconscious of him and his talk. You cannot keep your mind from wandering, if it wants to; it is master, not you. **About the mind