Quotes About Control

What I realized halfway through writing romance is that you start out intuitive, and you make all these choices mostly based on yourself and what you like and what talent you have, and... if you want to have any quality control over your product, you have to stop being intuitive and start being more of an analyst.

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.

One thing that we've invested a lot of in, that we all live by, is the power of the commissioner.

It should not take award-winning investigators to find out how this government operates.

When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.

Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!

I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.

I'm not too involved in day-to-day matters. I only supervise at the board level.

The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.

The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.

When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

We want Austrian-style Islam, not one controlled by other states.

All the Cuban government wants to do - and all it's demonstrated to the world - is that they want a repressive, authoritarian control; a Communist dictatorship to continue in the island. So anything that we do to try to help the island ultimately becomes fuel for them to repress their citizens.

If you really want to isolate a disease, then you have to isolate the people who carry it.

That's the downside of total creative control: You're isolated and after a while you can lose a little perspective. But I've taught myself not to listen to my own self-doubt.