Quotes About Control

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds.

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

Life in Beverly Hills is a game, and I make the rules.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

Don't let technology dictate your life.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.

I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU. THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF OFF.

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

I've been drunk maybe five times in my life. I don't like to lose control very much.

We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain't something that's going to be happening very often in real life!

What controls your attention, controls your life

If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life.

Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.