Your Control Quotes
94 quotes by 79 authors
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid,…
— Jane Campion
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I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how…
— Hillary Clinton
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An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words
— Sebastian Junger
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The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that kick it off, the things…
— Daniel Roberts
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I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to…
— Jack Nicklaus
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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone,…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.
— Mark Cuban
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No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you…
— Karch Kiraly
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If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to…
— Swami Vivekananda
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You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or…
— David Emerald Womeldorff
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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
— Barbara Sher
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Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
— Bill Crawford
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I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day,…
— M.I.A.
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Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you…
— Cameron Russell
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Everyone who became great at something has a similar story: For years, they worked on their craft every day, even if they weren’t in the…
— Derek Sivers
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You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.
— Sanford I. Weill
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At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's…
— Julia Ormond
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other…
— Epictetus
Who Wrote These Your Control Quotes
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