Definition of Controlling

Controlling Quotations

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Hunter S. Thompson

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

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
Chuck Norris

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
Gilda Radner

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
Raymond Holliwell

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
Sylvester Stallone