Quotes About Control

You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.

She doesn't want me to own her. (Dante) Well, the Simi doesn't understand that. Owning's not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)

Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources.

A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.

real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way?

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.

I'm not the government. Nor would I EVER want to be the government - I don't know how you feel about government, but I'm not really happy about them.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.