#control

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. ↗

— Mos Def

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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#always #control #fellow #getting #means

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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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

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#also #anyone #balance #control #else

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

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First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#because #blown #control #difference #first

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens. ↗

— Brian Eno

#control #finding #happens #i #involve

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result. ↗

— Steve Forbes

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