Top 161 No Control Quotes

A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you’re over 40 and you’re an actress, forget it.

Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It’s your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It’s duty.

I just don’t see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It’s all in God’s hands.

I can’t handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me.

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

I’ve done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it.

Turkey’s energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

Reality TV is hard. You put yourself out there and you have no control over which parts they show (and don’t show). And you are shooting sometimes 15 hour-days for months and months. It’s exhausting – physically and mentally.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

Why do we say ‘Have a great weekend?’ That’s just a spell. You’re just going – I have no control over your weekend. But words matter. They change our interior world. Have a great weekend.

I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it’s almost like I have no control over it. It’s like they choose me.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it’s predestined. It’s gonna happen in spite of you. There’s nothing you can do about it.

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we’re sincere; and our death.

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.

I know how loyal I was to Coach Blatt, and the people that know me understand that. I have no control over what people think.

As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product – your job is to make a director’s vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.

I’m going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I’m handing a book to – or I’m not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you’re out. You have no control over it.

I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn’t. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I’m glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

God has given me so many things along the way – a lot of stuff that I had no control over. God’s had his hand in everything I’ve been able to accomplish.

It’s the age-old thing – it’s such a cliche – but why worry about things you have no control over?

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

I find the older I get, the more I realize that time is really an illusion. Its like something we created, a constraint that we created so that we feel like we have control of something we have absolutely no control of.

You have no control over the market. You can’t predict where it will go, and you can’t bring it back from the depths. What you can do is save more. Make sure you have cash on hand – an emergency fund of at least six months of expenses.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

There are more things to worry about in the world than a messed-up audition. It’s out of your hands. So often, it’s not down to acting abilities but something an actor has no control over. So go in, be prepared, do your job, and go and enjoy the rest of your day.

I’m familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You’re constantly learning how to be confident, aren’t you?

In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

I’m not going to get mad over something that I have no control over.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it’s an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

When you label so much of what happens to you as ‘bad,’ it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And – this is key – labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you’ll experience it as such.

As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product – your job is to make a director’s vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.

My career after ‘Life Unexpected’ took a really big dip, and I realized you have no control as an actor over the process of going to work.

We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows. I’m sure they have fights at Miley Cyrus shows.

Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it’s predestined. It’s gonna happen in spite of you. There’s nothing you can do about it.

I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of ‘Grey’s.’ It’s something I have no control over, so I don’t even pay attention.

Well, if you’re suspecting your lover is having an affair, it’s definitely devastating. It’s really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.

Kids are born into the situation they’re born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it’s up to us to take care of kids – that’s part of your moral responsibility. I always tell people, ‘There’s two groups we should take care of – old people and young people.’

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client’s quality world.

After being on the field for so long and feeling like you have some control over the outcome or what’s happening out there, now I’m upstairs, and I have no control over anything. I’m working through that.

I have no control of life. I have to prepare myself for any situation.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.