Quotes About Control

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

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.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Putin was very careful to gradually sort of rotate people in and out of power, to make sure that he had competent bureaucrats by his side at all times, to keep the machine running.

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.

I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.

The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then.

Surely everyone can agree that immigration should be controlled.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

I'm quite surprised at how out of control I can be on stage because, actually, I find I like to be in control in life. It's quite freeing, really.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

I think what's surprised me about the music industry is that you never know what's going to happen. I've had to teach myself that, because I love to know everything. I'm quite a control freak when it comes to stuff like that.

Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

If you put the time in and you do your work and you eliminate the surprises, then you give yourself the best shot.

I'm very good at delegating - people work much better when they have a real sense of responsibility. But at the same time, I don't like surprises. I don't pore over every shoot, but I do like to be aware at all times of what's going on.

What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to control the Brazilian state itself, that this ends up meaning that things don't go with the speed any head of government would like.

We all know that I am not a big fan of surprises, and for whatever reason my life seems to be full of them.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.