#controlling

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

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Women are controlled by men like a currency of the world. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Allen

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I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

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When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. ↗

— Michael Ende

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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. ↗

— Lee De Forest

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Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space. ↗

— Ronald Graham

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It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

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