Control Quotes

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

~ John Lasseter

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

~ Norman Lindsay

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

~ Noah Taylor

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

~ John Ortberg

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

~ Julie Burchill

The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.

~ James Gray

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

~ Youssou N'dour

It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

~ Carrie Snow

I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.

~ Neil Postman

Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy.

~ Jason Silva

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

~ Steve Crocker

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

~ Steve Jobs

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

~ Luke Scott

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.

~ Ben Shapiro

Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.

~ Tom Graves

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

~ John Adams

I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave.

~ Ben Quayle

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

~ Harry Browne

The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government's gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We've gotten out of control.

~ David Malpass

I personally have always hated dating. I was never vulnerable or insecure in any part of my life, but I would become that way with a guy because they have control, according to society, when it comes to dating.

~ Whitney Wolfe

Obesity in children is growing out of control. A big part of this is economic. Fake foods are more affordable. It's enticing people to eat more because they think they're saving money when they're really just buying heart disease.

~ Jillian Michaels

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

~ Maggie Gallagher

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

~ Josiah Stamp

Money is a mechanism for control.

~ David Korten

I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.

~ Sam Brownback

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

~ Harri Holkeri

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

~ Paulo Freire

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

~ John Ruskin

People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

~ Azim Premji

Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.

~ Heikki Kovalainen

Beyond self-driving cars, I think all airplanes should go pilotless. Get the pilots out of there. Even better, have no cockpit at all, and turn it into a nice lounge with a bar. Why give people the illusion of control with a steering wheel?

~ Steve Jurvetson

Caution is the key to safe cycling. I'm aware that cars are bigger than me, but I feel quite safe. I'm in control, liberated and free, when I'm on my bike.

~ Erin O'connor

It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

~ A. R. Rahman

Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find it tough. To control 800 horse power relying just on arm muscles and foot sensitivity can turn out to be a dangerous exercise.

~ Michael Schumacher

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

~ L. Lionel Kendrick

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

~ Freddy Fender

Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.

~ Jen Kirkman

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.

~ Helen Fisher

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

~ Cass Mccombs