Don’t lose your head. It’s the best part of your body. ~ Jimmy Snyder

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. ~ A. J. Kitt

It’s all happening too fast. I’ve got to put the brakes on or I’ll smack into something. ~ Mel Gibson

If I could come back as anything I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice. ~ Nikki Giovanni

If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow. ~ Mario Andretti

He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ~ Lao Tzu

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration. ~ Alan Watts

Drive the business or it will drive thee. ~ Benjamin Franklin

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable. ~ Barbara Jordan

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ~ George Orwell

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. ~ Orison Swett Marden

You don’t have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that. ~ Sophia Coppola, Esquire

What you cannot enforce, do not command. ~ Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

It turns out you have two choices: You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what’s really happening is more important than trying to control people. ~ Larry Page, NY Post, 8/24/04

I think all art is about control – the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. ~ Richard Avedon

– Various