80 Remote Control Quotes
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Famous Remote Control Quotes
Control success before it controls you. — Dwight Yoakam
Anti-depressan ts Controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable Making life more tolerable — Serj Tankian
Control your life through insanity. — Cliff Burton
Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. — Daniel H. Pink
Control your fate or somebody else will — Heinrich von Pierer
I'm able to control the body through just the power of the mind. — Wim Hof
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. — James Allen
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different. — A.S. King
Control me...release me...forget about me. — Jeff Hardy
You have the ability to control your own physiology. — Wim Hof
You can control any situation if you first control yourself. — Florence Scovel Shinn
If you're in control, you're not going fast enough. — Parnelli Jones
The greatest mind control is control over your own mind. — Tom Bilyeu
You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts. — Napoleon Hill
You either control your mind or it controls you. — Napoleon Hill
Short Remote Control Quotes
- The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them. — Sun Tzu
- A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me. — Rudolph Valentino
- Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation. — Lao Tzu
- He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. — Lao Tzu
- He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. — Lao Tzu
- Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go. — Vincent Cassel
- Control your own destiny or someone else will. — Jack Welch
- Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself. — Lao Tzu
- The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination. — Carson Mccullers
- All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. — John Von Neumann
Remote Quotes
My strengths and weaknesses are the same: I've got the willingness and stupidity to try anything. If I think it's even remotely possible, I'll do it. — Travis Pastrana
The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world — William Bradford
But I think we're going to have people who work from home a couple of days a week. — Jensen Huang
One of the best ways to move naturally is by inconveniencing yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel. — Dan Buettner
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art. — Grant Wood
Putin the poseur on horseback is hiding in his remote bunker, while Zelensky, the former comedian, is risking his life on the frontline. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves — William Cohen
Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual. — John Irving
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen
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Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers. — Dave Barry
This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' — Jack White
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice? — Alexander Hamilton
Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery's dead? — Steven Wright
Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing. — David Petraeus
Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all children are born with, like knowing how to operate a remote control or getting high fevers in distant airports. — Dave Barry
A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I've got a couple of drones. I've got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun — Shaquille O'Neal
When you're attacking a router on the internet, and you're doing it remotely, it's like trying to shoot the moon with a rifle. Everything has to happen exactly right. Every single variable has to be controlled and precisely accounted for. And that's not possible to do when you have limited knowledge of the target you're attacking. — Edward Snowden
The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington. — Arnold Kling
These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both. — Benjamin W. Chidlaw
Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport. — Paolo Di Canio
People who feel the need to push and control tend to keep their feelings bottled up. As a result, they get shut down or remote, and their feelings come out in twisted, unhealthy ways. They become irritable, passive-aggressive, or volatile, for example. — Judith Orloff
Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated? — Arundhati Roy
It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks. — Andrew Niccol
Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote. — Barbara Ehrenreich
It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold. — David E. Kelley
Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base. — William Arthur Ward
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. — James Surowiecki
While watching the New Orleans Saints (on television), I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn't stop laughing for an hour. — Shane West
This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control. — David Neeleman
A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV. — Conan O'Brien
There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out. — Lucinda Williams
I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control. — Steven Wright
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values. — Douglas Rushkoff
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote. — Aaron Brown
I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons! — Lil' Romeo
When I asked my shrink if I was a control freak, he finished saying “Absolutely” before I finished saying “freak.” I told him that I once worked with a woman who carried a remote control in her purse. Whenever she got worried or angry, she took it out and stroked it like a gerbil. My shrink said that if I keep comparing myself to severe neurotics, I’ll think that anything is permissible. — From “No Universe” — Erika Krouse
People who feel the need to push and control tend to keep their feelings bottled up. As a result, they get shut down or remote, and their feelings come out in twisted, unhealthy ways. They become irritable, passive-aggressive, or volatile, for example. Surrendered people make great lovers. They can be spontaneous and playful. They love to feel and express all of their emotions. They look vibrant, healthy, and energetic. — Judith Orloff
An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control. — Johnny Depp
Using virtual world, a scientist in Japan can conduct an experiment using a special facility in California, watching the entire thing via a live stream - and possibly controlling the experimental equipment remotely. We can use that same kind of technology to control a robot on Mars. — Annalee Newitz
I have a cousin Ernie who buys stuff. He's got a big snowblower that's actually the biggest snowblower you can buy, with a remote control, so he doesn't even have to go outside. He's got the microwave and a satellite dish, it's all in one. He cooks and watches at the same time. — Louie Anderson
55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time! — Jay Leno
9% would give up sex for the remote control. 91% has already given up sex for the remote control! — Jay Leno
A small handgun makes any TV remote control. — David Letterman
I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping. — Margaret Bourke-White
Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. [TV remote control] Click. — Scott Adams
I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast. — Jamie Hyneman
You ever look for the remote control, but you can't find it, so you just decide, "Ah, guess I'm not watching TV. I'm not gonna take two steps and turn it on myself. I'll go to the gym if I'm going to work out." — Jim Gaffigan
AT&T is now offering a new service that allows you to pay your bills through your TV screen by using your remote control. So instead of saying, "The check's in the mail," people are going to say, "Hey, I wanted to pay, but I couldn't find the remote." — Jay Leno
No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the things seen and felt in that wonderful world of air: the sense of remoteness from the busy world below, the feeling of intense brotherhood formed with those who man the radio ranges and control towers and weather stations that bring the pilot home, the clouds and the colors, the surge of the wind on their wings. — Percy Knauth
The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it. — David Hume
I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough. — Mary Tyler Moore
In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings. — Jane Fonda
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches. — A. A. Gill
About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control? — Brian D. McLaren
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