Control
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
Author: Upton SinclairTopics: Control, Credit
I think people need something to believe in, because they don’t want to have control over their own lives. They’d rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it’s easier for them to blame it on that.
Author: Sasha GreyTopics: Control, Famous, Greater, Meaningful, People, Rather, Something, Spirit, Unknown
Because we self-published ‘Draculas,’ we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Control, Famous, Self-published
I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Control, Famous, Hurt, Life, Mechanism
I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won’t ever take another Big 6 contract since they’ve gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.
Author: J. A. KonrathTopics: Contract, Control, Famous, Freedom, Money, New York, Offer, Published
A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don’t think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Community, Control, Society
In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Check, Control, Famous, Freedom, Government, Leaders, People, Rule
It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Control, Evil, Famous, Good, Government
You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Control, Famous, Government, Next place, Obliged
A person always has control over how she meets her adversities, and the good news is that the facing of them, one after another, year after year, builds an inner strength that nobody can take away from you.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Control, Famous, Inner Strength, Person
John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too convulsed with rage to speak. “If you strike that dog again, I’ll kill you,” he at last managed to say in a choking voice
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Control, Managed, Speak, Voice
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I’m sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that’s important, that’s what leadership’s all about.
Author: Iain Duncan SmithTopics: Control, Discipline, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Football, Inspirational, Leadership, Life, Meaningful, People, Political, Positive
Leadership is not about being in control; it’s about empowering others to reach their full potential.
Author: I.King jordanTopics: Control, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Leadership, Life, Positive
To be honest, I haven’t seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It’s not the White House’s fault that John Boehner couldn’t deliver on a bigger deal.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Budget, Control, Election, Famous, Planning, Republican
We control the content of our dreams.
Author: Thom GunnTopics: Control, Dream, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
Control your emotions! Discipline your mind!
Author: J. K. RowlingTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful
I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self-esteem.
Author: Kanye WestTopics: Control, Famous, Follow, Low self-esteem, Manipulate, People, Refuse
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions
Author: Therese FowlerTopics: Control, Emotion, Famous, Feelings, Letting, Life, Little, Meaningful, Mind, People
The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.
Author: Tom HanksTopics: Control, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive, Seen, Time, Truly, Way
For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask: why can’t we convert our anger for the larger good of society?
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Centuries, Control, Famous, Goodness, Larger, Parents, Society, Taught, Teacher
You can’t really predict what’s going to happen. The only thing you can control is your work ethic and how well you do your job.
Author: Tom CruiseTopics: Control, Famous, Feelings, Happen, Job, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Predict, Work
As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also, to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Company, Conduct, Control, Famous, Good, Meaningful, Negotiation, Priority, Service, Single
As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
Author: K. Flay
Topics: Control, Empowerment, Famous, Independent, Mean, Production
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Control, Fact, Famous, Find, Gun, Law, Violence
As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Control, Drop, Famous, Hear, Price, Shortage, Wait
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Control, Countries, Famous, Law, Life, Meaningful, Murder, Strong
Our story of bus drivers reveals the existence of the proverbial elephant in the room. It shows that the living standards of the huge majority of people in rich countries critically depend on the existence of the most draconian control over their labour markets – immigration control. Despite this, immigration control is invisible to many and deliberately ignored by others, when they talk about the virtues of the free market.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Control, Drivers, Famous, Free-market, Immigration, Living, People, Rich countries, Story
I’ve never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn’t have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven’t worked on a lot of shows.
Author: H. Jon BenjaminTopics: Control, Famous, Never, Show
Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.
Author: H. D. Kumaraswamy
Topics: Control, Difficult, Emotion, Famous, Weakness
Silly me, I thought’ independent’ was like independent, but when NBC and [ production companies ] Fremantle and Syco pay for that investigation, they control it.
Author: Gabrielle UnionTopics: Control, Famous, Independent, Investigations
You can’t control what people say or do, but you can control how you choose to perceive it.
Author: Gabrielle BernsteinTopics: Choose, Control, Famous, Inspirational, People, Perceives, Say
I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.
Author: Gabrielle BernsteinTopics: Control, Famous, Inspirational, Need, Sacrifice, Thing, Universe
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Control, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Learning, Meaningful, Money, Patience, Prudence, Responsibility, Saving
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Control, Detachment, Emotional, Experiences, Famous, Feeling, Feelings, Harmony, Ignore, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Pain, Positive
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Breath, Connection, Control, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Focus, Hold, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Mindfulness, Positive, Scattered, Thoughts, Unites
One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Topics: Contributions, Control, Heart, Heart disease, Sooner, Soonest
In terms of love, you’re not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I’m a very tragic person. But there’s always an element of humor at the end
Author: Freddie MercuryTopics: Control, Hasty, Hate, Lovable, Love, Love interest, Sacrificing, Sad, Write
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the governmen
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Control, Government, Information, Intertwined, Liberty, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Protect, Protecting, Strong, Strong attraction, Strong concepts, Surer, Surest
We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda
Author: Frank ZappaTopics: Control, Fact, Factor, Famous, Free, Free of cost, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, News, News attention, Pretend, Pretending, Societal Values, Society
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
Author: Emily DickinsonTopics: Control, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Little, Meaningful, Paying, Things
One year they asked me to be poster boy – for birth control.
Author: Rodney DangerfieldTopics: Control, Famous, Poster
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous — even death is terrible only if we fear it.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Control, Death, Famous, Fear, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nature, Terrible, Towards
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Control, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Passions, Thee
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Control, Disregard, Famous, Freedom, Goal, Inspirational, Lie, Life, Meaningful, Things
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Control, Famous, Man, Trust
I felt very much in control, I knew what my car was capable of doing, and I was just stalking, I guess, to make sure I had the right time to make it happen.
Author: Helio CastronevesTopics: Capable, Control, Famous, Meaningful
You can’t always control the outcome, but you can control your effort and attitude.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Control, Effort, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Outcome
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful, Passion
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Author: Brian TracyTopics: Control, Famous, Inspirational, Lack of control, Life, Meaningful, No control, Positive, Positive Attitude, Positive Change
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Author: Brian TracyTopics: Change, Changeable, Control, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Lack of control, Life, Master, Meaningful, No control, Out of control, Positive, Self-control
Music is something no one can control
Author: Bad BunnyTopics: Control, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Music, Musical, Musical Instruments, Something, Something for nothing
You need to be able to hit, kick, grapple, wrestle, but for me so much of this is about the mind, about feeling you are in complete control of the space around you, and you know what to do at any moment. That is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn’t just happen, you have to work for it, train for it, think about it all the time.
Topics: Contributions, Control, Happen, Happenings, Hardly, Hardworking, Hitting, Key, Kick, Space, Times, Times of difficulty, Train, Training, Wonderful
The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe – chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan.
Author: G. Edward GriffinTopics: Chemicals, Control, Famous, Fertility, Human health, Impact, Inspirational, Population
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
Author: Richard BachTopics: Control, Famous, Freedom, Health, Poverty, Riches, Sickness, Slavery
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Author: Groucho MarxTopics: Control, Famous, Fate, Inspirational, Life, Man, Women
I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
Author: Ray BradburyTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful, Work
I don’t control my writing – it controls me.
Author: Ray BradburyTopics: Control, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
What I like about Pochettino is the way that he looks in control. He is in control of his players, in control of the way that they play.
Author: Paul ScholesTopics: Control, Famous, Looks, Play, Players, Pochettino
I have strong feelings about gun control. If there’s a gun around, I want to be controlling it.
Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Contributions, Control, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Strong, Strong attraction, Wanted
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Control, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Realise
The Bible is a manual for enslavement, for the subjugation of women, for the control of populations, for the genocidal extermination of competing tribes, for the dissolution of the autonomy of the powerful state, for the infiltration of human thought, for the diabolical control of those who wish to be free men and women.
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Control, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Human, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Men of thought., Mental, State, Statement, Thinking mind, Thought-provoking, Women
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy—the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Contributions, Control, Enemy, Energy, Famous, Inside, Insignificant, Life, Meaningful, Over, Over-civilization, Tax
I’m such a control freak, and it’s very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.
Author: PinkTopics: Chemicals, Control, Famous, Freaks, Hard, Inhibitions, Inside, Something
It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
Author: Elon MuskTopics: Control, Happens
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful, Someone
I can’t control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
Author: Desmond TutuTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful
I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Control, Famous, Fate, Opportunities
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Certain, Control, Famous, Greatest, Happening
My mom’s hot. I mean she’s old, but my mom’s out of control.
Author: Paul WalkerTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful, Mom, Old
You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Choices, Control, Famous, Mind
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
Author: Paul HarveyTopics: Control, Famous, Health, Meaningful
I have to take total control myself. I can’t let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don’t want to get other people playing with what they think that I’m trying to do.
Author: David BowieTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful
When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Acceptable, Contribute, Control, Divine, Hard, Hope, Relief, Religion, Religious Differences, Sense, Sense of belonging, Times, Times of difficulty
The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Consideration, Control, Cooperation, Famous, Health, Important, Meaningful, Observation, Possessions, Principles, Unpredictable
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
Author: George OrwellTopics: Control, Famous, Mind, Perception, Philosophical questions
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Control, Famous, Inspirational, Past, Present
In its essence, technology is something that man does not control.
Author: Martin HeideggerTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful, Something, Technology
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Author: Maya AngelouTopics: Control, Decide, Famous, Happen, Meaningful
I used to practice with a golf ball because it was easier to control.
Author: George BestTopics: Control, Famous, Golf ball, Inspirational, Practice
The less confident we are in ourselves, the less we are in touch with ourselves and the world, the more we want to control.
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Control, Touch, Wanted, World
One’s god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Christians, Control, Development, Famous, Implement, Inspirational, Law, Meaningful, Self-destruct
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Action, Control, Famous, Human Nature, Inspirational, Strongest efforts
Religion is just mind control.
Author: George CarlinTopics: Control, Famous, Manipulation, Minds, Religion
You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.
Author: Arnold SchwarzeneggerTopics: Control, Desire, Dream, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Positive Change, Progress
The Communist party must control the guns.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Communist, Control, Famous, Guns, Meaningful, Party
I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don’t want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Control, Darkness, Force, Light
It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Control, Feeling, Feelings, Necessary, Religious, Spiritual, Understand, Understanding
I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life’s bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Control, Divine, Life, Trust, Trusted
Change yourself – you are in control.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Change, Control, Famous, Meaningful, Yourself
I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.
Author: Nicki MinajTopics: Capable, Control, Famous, Meaningful
If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am the sunrise.
Author: Nicki MinajTopics: Control, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Sunset, Sunsets, Watching
That is neoliberal democracy in a nutshell: trivial debate over minor issues by parties that basically pursue the same pro-business policies regardless of formal differences and campaign debate. Democracy is permissible as long as the control of business is off-limits to popular deliberation or change; i.e. so long as it isn’t democracy.
Author: Noam ChomskyTopics: Business, Change, Control, Democracy, Difference, Parties, Popular
Seize the opportunity, believe, and take control of it. Then get on your marathon and grind it ’til it’s over with
Author: Nipsey HussleTopics: Control, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Opportunities
I don’t mind bumps on a street circuit but some of these are quite severe and more like a jump so the wheels actually come off the ground, this track is also very aggressive on tires so if we can keep them under control then it could be pretty good.
Author: Max VerstappenTopics: Control, Famous, Feelings, Good, Meaningful
You can’t control the length of your life. You can control the depth.
Author: Billy GrahamTopics: Control, Depth, Length, Life
I don’t need to live by your rules, you don’t control me.
Author: Ariana GrandeTopics: Control, Famous, Feelings, Life, Live, Meaningful
Luck is nice, but work is something you can control. So get working!
Author: Les BrownTopics: Control, Encouragement, Famous, Luck, Motivational, Work
You have absolute control over one thing, and that is your thoughts.
Author: Napoleon HillTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful, Thoughts
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
Author: Napoleon HillTopics: Control, Environment, Famous, Influence, Life, Master, Meaningful
You either control your mind or it controls you.
Author: Napoleon HillTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful, Mind
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Author: Benjamin FranklinTopics: Control, Happen, Happens, Inside
Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She’s bigger than me. She’s on a different level of performance that I have never done.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Control, Famous, Meaningful, Performance, Play, Work
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Challenges, Control, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Scare
I just want to be myself. You learn from yourself, and that doesn’t mean you have to drive slower; it actually means you have to drive faster, but maybe with a little bit in control, and that’s what I learned.
Author: Max VerstappenTopics: Control, Drive, Famous, Learn, Meaningful
State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
Author: Benito MussoliniTopics: Control, Famous, Insufficient, Intervention, Management, Meaningful, Production, State
These things are … beyond your control. It’s in other people’s hands now.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Control, Famous, Inspirational, People
You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Control, Famous, President, Responsibilities, Responsibility, Responsible
Never let failure take control of you.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Advice, Control, Failure, Famous, Growth Mindset, Positive Mindset
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
Author: B.F. SkinnerTopics: Control, Eliminate, Environment, Environmental, Experiences, Famous, Ideal, Idealistic, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Reinforcement, Reinforcer
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
Author: B.F. SkinnerTopics: Control, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, People, People Respect, Positive, Reason
I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
Author: B.F. SkinnerTopics: Control, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Opposed, Positive
I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people’s opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Control, Experiences, Famous, Hoping, Life, People’s Opinions, Performance
If you want to be successful, respect one rule. Never let failure take control of you.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Control, Failure, Famous, Respect, Rule, Successful
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us
Author: Alan WattsTopics: Control, Famous, Feelings, Life, Person, Power, Powerful Concept
Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.
Author: Mike TysonTopics: Control, Fear, Friend, Obstacle
Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you.
Author: Mike TysonTopics: Burn, Control, Cook, Destroy, Enemy, Friend, Heat
One must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it because if you don’t, you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.
Author: Mike TysonTopics: Build, Control
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
Author: Mahmoud DarwishTopics: Age, Control, Emotion, Passed
For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Author: Milan KunderaTopics: Compare, Comparision, Control, Courage, Emotion, Feeling, Gentle, Heart, Love, Lovers, Pain, Philosophy
No, my friend, forget the lottery! Win or lose, it is the same, it is a kind of deadly game in which we can never guess the consequences.
Author: Milan KunderaTopics: Competition, Concept, Control, Courage, Desire, Expected, Express, Facts, Focus, Knowledge, Learning, Lottery
It’s about leaving something better for our kids. That’s how we’ve always moved this country forward, by all of us coming together on behalf of our children, folks who volunteer to coach that team, to teach that Sunday school class, because they know it takes a village.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Achievement, Acknowledgement, Ambition, Challenge, Change, Child, Children, Control, Country, Encouragement, Inspirational, Legend, Lesson, Life, Motivational, Parenting, Profession, Proud, Society, Success, Successful, Superhero, Time, Victory, Wisdom, World
One of the things I realized is that if you don’t take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Advice, Challenge, Competition, Control, Express, Feelings, Satisfaction, Self Respect, Successful, Work, World
You may not always have a comfortable life, and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Advice, Concept, Confession, Confidence, Control, Encouragement, Feeling, Greatness, Hard Work, Hope, Inspiration, Inspirational, Knowledge, Strength, Work, World, Worry
I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.
Author: Lewis HamiltonTopics: Car, Championship, Control, Courage, Win
I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.
Author: Mark ZuckerbergTopics: Business, Chance, Concept, Confidence, Control, Courage, Effort, Emotion, Everything, Express, Feelings, Life, Observation, Opportunity
I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.
Author: Mark ZuckerbergTopics: Advice, Ambition, Business, Concept, Control, Effort, Growth, Imagination, Lesson, Life, Manipulation, Meaningful
Ideas don’t come out fully formed , they only become clearer as you work on them . You just have to get started.
Author: Mark ZuckerbergTopics: Concept, Control, Cool, Effort, Strength, Struggle, Technique
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Author: Mark ZuckerbergTopics: Challenge, Concept, Control, Country, Emotion, Enemies, Express, Feelings, Health, Hospital
We don’t crash EVER!
Author: Mark ZuckerbergTopics: Challenge, Chance, Change, Concept, Control, Desire, Emotion, Feelings, Hard Work, Hope, Imagination, Learning, Lesson, Strength, Success, Successful
I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you’re building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes.
Author: Mark ZuckerbergTopics: Advice, Ambition, Confession, Control, Courage, Emotion, Everything, Express, Improve, Lesson, Life, Meaningful, Motivational, Reality, Strength, Success, Successful, Wisdom
People don’t care about what you say; they care about what you build.
Author: Mark ZuckerbergTopics: Challenge, Concept, Control, Courage, Crucial, Effort, Emotion, Freedom, Growth, Hard Work, Improvement, Improvements, Judgement, Knowledge
Don’t let anyone tell you to change who you are.
Author: Mark ZuckerbergTopics: Concept, Control, Decision, Desire, Dream, Effort, Elegance, Emotion, Everything, Expectation, Express, Facts, Feelings, Judgement, Knowledge, Learning, Lesson, Life, Manipulation, Performance, Truth, Unique, Value, World
In a world that’s changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Author: Mark ZuckerbergTopics: Advice, Control, Courage, Emotion, Fear, Feelings, Freedom, Inspirational, Lesson, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Money, Observation, Opportunity, Problems, Success, Successful, Work
I know my boundaries. I know the limits to the car.
Author: Lewis HamiltonTopics: Car, Confidence, Control, Limitation, Mentality, Motivational, Talent
A land without myths is like a sky without stars.
Author: Mahmoud DarwishTopics: Change, Concept, Control, Devotion, Dreams, Education, Effort, Emotion, Experiences, Fear, Feelings, Hustle, Stars, Truth, World
My homeland is a song that never stops singing.
Author: Mahmoud DarwishTopics: Championship, Control, Desire, Experiences, Learning, Lesson, Life, Music, Song, Special
I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don’t think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only harms you to worry about those things.
Author: Lionel MessiTopics: Chance, Consistency, Control, Cool, Decent, Experiences, Faith, Famous, Forgiveness, Leadership, Meaningful, Patience, Performance, Positive, Profession, Talent, Team
I never thought a role model should be negative.
Author: Michael JordanTopics: Control, Criticize, Education, Emotion, Faith, Feelings, Improvements, Inspirational, Learning, Lesson, Meaningful, Mind, Observation, Parenting
I can’t speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.
Author: Michael JordanTopics: Challenge, Championship, Communication, Control, Courage, Desire, Dream, Emotion, Famous, Footballer, Philosophy, Sports, Talent, Teacher, Time, Truth, Visions, Wisdom, Worry
I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
Author: Michael JordanTopics: Control, Feelings, Footballer, Health, Learning, Lesson, Life, Patience, Power, Strength, Struggle, Teacher, Value, Work
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
Author: W. C. FieldsTopics: Control, Criticize, Famous, Judgement, Learning, Lesson, Life, Self-Worth