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You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs.
— John Wooden
As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.
— Kristen Stewart
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
— Epictetus
One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.
— Demi Lovato
Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over ...
— Sarah Addison Allen
Evil is something you need to fight until it ceases trying to control you.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.
— Warren Buffett
Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.
— Melody Beattie
Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.
— Keith Henson
We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.
— Nick Lachey
The harder you try to control your girlfriend the further you'll drive her away, so stop acting like a dumbbell.
— Jeanne Phillips
Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!
— Marianne Williamson
I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.
— Scott McCallum
No is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you.
— Gavin De Becker
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
— Reed Hastings
It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow.
— Katie Uhlaender
Your inner messages stand apart because rather than trying to control you, your soul wants to liberate you.
— Catherine Carrigan
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
— Alain De Botton
I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.
— Kanye West
Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.
— Melody Beattie
I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.
— Luke Temple
My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.
— Gianluigi Buffon
Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.
— Joy Browne
I can't try to throw 110 miles per hour. I've got to pitch under control.
— Jeremy Bonderman
I was also trying to control my mouth from opening and asking what was happening at the same time control my body from hurling itself in his arms.
— Kristen Ashley
The Universe has your back. Instead of trying to control the outcome, just enjoy the journey.
— Dawn Gluskin
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Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed?Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore ... — James Dashner
I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.
— Gregg Sulkin
Everyone is trying to control their own unhappiness.
— Paulo Coelho
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go
— Chuck Palahniuk
God is the one that's ultimately in control of everything. You can't try to change things when they're not meant to be changed.
— Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
He's trying to control me, and he wants to use his religion to do that. Religion isn't just a power word- the word is power itself.
— Scott Sigler
life was made up of hundreds of individual moments. We need to focus on the good ones, rather than trying to control everything continuously.
— Nick M. Lloyd
Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Be an unsinkable ship.' Basically, making yourself seaworthy is easier than trying to control the sea.
— Allie Brosh
Worrying meant you were trying to control something you had no business trying to control
— Martha Woodroof
What I try to control ends up controlling me.
— Susan Jeffers
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
— Laozi
If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior.
— Robin Skynner
Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
— Jerome A. Miller
You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.
— Jonathan Toews
An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.
— Nicole Kidman
Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.
— L. Ron Hubbard
All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
— Rupert Murdoch
You enjoy things less when you are always trying to control things instead of just living.
— Kaza Kingsley
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.
— Lewis Hamilton
I can only control what I do. I can try to suggest and be open, but trust is the key.
— Giancarlo Esposito
We start trying to use defusion as a control strategy, as a way of trying to make our experience different than it is.
— Russ Harris
It is futile to talk too much about the past ... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
— Charles Erwin Wilson
I'm pretty sure all the individuals trying to control other people's happiness have none in their own lives.
— Sarah Liss
i'm not trying to control you, i'm trying to court you!
— Kiersten White
We mothers can testify that it is impossible to completely control a child. It's like trying to steer a cat. Toni sorenson
— Toni Sorenson
My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.
— James Earl Jones
Our whole life is wasted in trying to change others. For a change, try to change yourself! It is easier and at least under your control.
— Sanchita Pandey
We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us.
— Erving Goffman
You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.
— Donnie Wahlberg
Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.
— Taya Kyle
The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.
— Charlotte Rampling
I try to get control of the tempo, control of the flow, and get my teammates the ball in the best position to score.
— Deron Williams
Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa
Keep your hand moving. (Don't pause to reread the line you have just written. That's stalling and trying to get control of what you're saying.)
— Natalie Goldberg
Stop trying to stay safe, stop trying to control your feelings. Don't put up an umbrella, feel the rain.
— Fabian Black
I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.
— Toks Olagundoye
People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.
— L. Ron Hubbard
And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable ... you ironically increase ... the probability of getting what you want.
— Michael Neill
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
— Eric Clapton
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.
— Thomas Jefferson
Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
— Ritchie Blackmore
I have learned that trying to control other people's opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.
— Dan Pearce
When you claim to have the truth, you are trying to get power and control over other people.
— Timothy J. Keller
In contrast, nonattachment allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes.
— David R. Hawkins
Are you trying to tell me," said Arthur, slowly and with control, "that you originally . . . made the Earth?
— Douglas Adams
I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.
— Kristen Stewart
