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Control Quotes

Control is easier to want than to keep.

This page leans into control as it relates to information — encrypted files that let you choose what to surrender, the digital trails automated crawlers can piece together — alongside a more personal admission about having no control over public recognition. See our Controlling quotes for a related angle.

Suddenly I could control every aspect of publishing, and it was incredibly empowering! I didn't have to sit by the phone any longer waiting for things to happen because I was the one making them happen. That's why I decided...

Quotes by Teresa Medeiros

Our Web sites and our e-mail lists are the two things that we control.

Quotes by Teresa Medeiros

As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if...

Quotes by Teresa Palmer

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And...

Quotes by Teena Marie

The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.

Quotes by Ted Yoho

The comparison to Willie Beamen - that was pretty harsh, but everything happens for a reason and like I said, you can't control it.

Quotes by Teddy Bridgewater

I contracted malaria while working in the field. That was the impetus for me to pursue a doctorate in community health. As a young academic, I investigated the patterns of malaria's spread and the potential measures we could employ to...

Quotes by Tedros Adhanom

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of...

Quotes by Ted Demme

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

Quotes by Taylor Dayne

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

Quotes by Taylor Hackford

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

Quotes by Taylor Hanson

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of...

Quotes by Tavis Smiley

I don't want to be labeled as just a producer. Producers have little control and they get little respect. And I'm a man of respect.

Quotes by Tay Keith

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

Quotes by Tariq Ramadan

If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but...

Quotes by Tarsem Singh

Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

Quotes by Tao Okamoto

Fears, insecurities, and the need to please can rule our lives. Our society is economically and socially set up for us to live under these pressures in order to maintain its control and survival.

Quotes by Tara Stiles

I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the...

Quotes by Taraji P. Henson

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

Quotes by Tamsin Greig

Television is very instant. Theatre is much more free, but you are very much on your own up there on stage and in control of your own performance.

Quotes by Tamzin Outhwaite

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about data trails and social control?
Yes, one quote observes: "People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities."
Is there a quote about cryptography giving you control over your own data?
Yes, one quote explains: "I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice."
Is there a quote about not letting something like an award show control your happiness?
Yes, one quote says: "It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control." For more on this theme, see our Controlling quotes.
Is there a quote about lacking control over creative work?
Yes, one quote admits: "I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying." For more on this feeling, see our Controlled quotes.
Where can I find more variations on the theme of control?
Check out our Control Freak quotes for a more intense take, or our Controls quotes for related lines.

Quotes about resisting outside control appear on our Control Freak page, while Controlled quotes look at the other side of that relationship.