Control Quotes

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
Jack Nicklaus

Person, Play, Player

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
Jack Nicklaus

Win, Put, Played

When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.
Jack Nicklaus

Nothing, Thought, Two

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.
Tom Tancredo

Choose, Borders

I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.
Kevin Mitnick

Passion, Able, Longer

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.
Kevin Mitnick

Company, System, Worked

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
Titus Livius

Great, Moment, Luck

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.
Paul Gascoigne

Team, Decisions, Freak

I'm not a control freak.
Fiona Apple

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.
Jeffrey Kluger

Life, Home, Living

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.
Shimon Peres

Cannot, Social, Internet

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes

Reason, Emotions, Ability

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
Jim DeMint

Life, Hope, Freedom

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.
Jim DeMint

Power, Culture, Move

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
Joyce Carol Oates

Mind, Emotions, Beyond

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.
Angie Stone

Love, Expect, Run

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.
Janet Jackson

When I was younger, I thought you had to be in control of your own life. That takes a lot of discipline, hard work and focus. You just can't let it all fall by the wayside. Later on, I learned that God is really in control of everything. But you still have to put your best foot forward and be the best you can possibly be.
Janet Jackson

Life, Work, God

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.
Marilu Henner

Less, Prepared, Nervous

They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour.
Sloane Crosley

Waiting, Person, Special

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
Joan Didion

Tiny, Totally, Typewriter

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
Jon Hamm

Life, Age, Time

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

Negative, Sometimes, Side

Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
Rachel Weisz

Work, Bad, Everything

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.
Dick Cheney

Power, Today, Decision

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!
Sara Blakely

Moment, Started, Top

I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.
Sara Blakely

Night, Enough, Perfect

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
Charlize Theron

Work, Winning, Film

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski

Nature, Her, Laws

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.
Carnie Wilson

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