Quotes About Control

What I learned in 'Sons' is that I would come in with a blueprint of a season and how it would go, and I realized that the looser my grip was, the better it became because the story found itself. Things happened as I wanted them to in terms of the bigger mile markers, but the fun part was I never knew how we would get there.

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

As far as the media goes, I'm driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Charles Miller cannot bring down my government.

Mitch Miller knew exactly what he wanted me to sing. He didn't want me to improvise at all.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Playing at Kentucky, before 24,000 people, you have to learn how to grow real fast and play under pressure and playing on ESPN with millions of people watching. Right away, you learn how to play under control.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

There's an element of control that comes with acting which you've just got to be really mindful of.

It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.

I think PR people are caught in this mindset of 'control of the message.' There's a lot more freedom if you give up control. If you allow people to say things that are genuine and admit mistakes and get on.

I have to have the mindset of Vito Corleone in everything I do.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

I'm not for laws. We need a minimum of laws.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

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