Quotes about Control

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.
Control - Mindset
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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.
Altruism - Control - Mercy - Principle
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George Santayana

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
Control
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Aldous Huxley

Writer, Philosopher

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.
Control - Countries - Death - Giving - Mindset - Whole - Wishing
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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you're focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That's why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. When you next find yourself in a state of uncertainty, resist your fear. Shift your focus toward where you want to go and your actions will take you in that direction.
Actions - Control - Energy - Flow - Growing - State - Uncertainty - Wants
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John Dewey

Philosopher, Psychologist, Educational Reformer

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life.
Control - Human - Incident
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Robert Kiyosaki

Writer, Author, Investor

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.
Control - Giving - Life - People - Security
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Simon Sinek

Historian, Author, Author

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
Bad - Belief - Control - Leadership - Projection - Time
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Warren Buffett

Business Magnate, Investor, Speaker

As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.
Ability - Control - Making - Permanence - Pleasure - Sales
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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
Certainty - Control - Fate - Happiness - Inspiration - Lie - Life - Loss - World
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Jack Canfield

Activist, Author, Author

You only have control over three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior). How you use these three things determines everything you experience. If you don't like what you are producing and experiencing, you have to change your responses.
Actions - Behavior - Change - Control - Experience - Life - Motivation - Production - Thinking
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John Dewey

Philosopher, Psychologist, Educational Reformer

Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of the individuals guided; control conveys rather the notion of an energy brought to bear from without and meeting some resistance from the one controlled; direction is a more neutral term and suggests the fact that the active tendencies of those directed are led in a certain continuous course, instead of dispersing aimlessly.
Activity - Assistance - Certainty - Control - Notions - Tendency
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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

Every decision in your life is controlled by your beliefs and values. You may not realize it, but you have the power to choose what you believe about your life, people, money and health. You can either choose beliefs that limit you, or beliefs that empower you to move toward success. Your beliefs energize you to create the world you want to live in right now. The key is to be aware of them because what you value determines what you focus on.
Belief - Control - Decision - Empowerment - Key - Limits - Movement - People - Realization - Value - Wants - World
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Albert Ellis

Psychologist, Developer of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Blame - Control - Decision - Destiny - Ecology - Good - Life - Mother - Ownership - President - Problem - Realization
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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Control
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James A. Garfield

Clergyman, President, 20th U.S. President

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
Commerce - Control - Countries - Industry - Mastering - Money
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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

I don't try to control my days.
Control - Day - Trial
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Arthur C. Clarke

Writer, Futurist

It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]
Ability - Communicate - Control - Earth - Prediction
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Tony Robbins

Actor, Author, Author

I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.
Choice - Conditioning - Control - Decision - People - Thinking
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Lyndon B. Johnson

Former President of the United States

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Certainty - Control - Effectiveness - Nations
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