Quotes About Control

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?

I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'

I think if you don't be proactive about how you want your music to be visually represented, I think other people will do it for you.

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want.

I'm not going to blame a referee for something I feel like I should be able to control. I should get up quicker. If you want to win fights, you just have to do it, regardless of what's going on.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.

Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.

[Eva Braun] always said, "you're the Führer, you can do whatever you want to do."