#control

The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival. ↗

— Albert Claude

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The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control. ↗

— Bill Dixon

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That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled. ↗

— Stephen Dorff

#control #controlled #danger #feel #feeling

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

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With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic. ↗

— Richard Donner

#felt #i #omen #panic #really

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#chaos #control #engendered #holds #more

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online. ↗

— John Doolittle

#appear #charge #control #could #countries

The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States. ↗

— John Doolittle

#continue #control #internet #keep #medium

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.' ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#am #being #control #day #full

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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