Quotes about Control

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me.

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

Over the years, I've found that anger is necessary, but it must reach an equilibrium: You need just enough but never too much. If you don't let it in, you become hollow; but if you let it take over, you become its slave.

There is nothing wrong with being a puppet if love is the one pulling the strings.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts only upon thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.

You may not be able to control other people . . . but you can control how you react to them and their actions. This is an easy thing to say but much more difficult to do.

Turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your own mind. It is your own mind! It was given to you as a servant to carry out your desires. And no one may enter it or influence it in the slightest degree without your consent and cooperation. What a profound fact this is!

We are the masters of our fate, we are the captains of our soul, *because* we have the power to control our *thoughts*.