People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Albert Bandura

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
Cher

I'm not worried. I'm in control.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
Vaclav Havel

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.
Michael Ignatieff

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Wole Soyinka

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
Jackson Browne

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
Freda Adler

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
Donald Rumsfeld

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.
Donald Rumsfeld

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
John Henrik Clarke

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Michael Caine

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
James Hillman

Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
Robert Redford

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.
Robert Redford

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
Norman Cousins

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.
Kenny G

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
Sidney Sheldon

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
Evel Knievel