Quotes About Control

I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.

I'm scared to be political. You get too powerful, and more people try to take you out.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

They're always trying to claim that if I talk about world government and corruption, I'm anti-Semitic.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.

When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

I am just the band leader, and I just keep everything in tune.

The thing I enjoy the most about being the head coach is that I get to create the climate. I get to control the environment everybody comes to work in every day, and I'm very in tune to the chemistry, the morale of my staff, my support staff, my secretaries, the guy cleaning the building, the players, the walk-ons.

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.

The guitar is a funny instrument because you have bendable strings and distortion - there's a potential for noise. It is more exposing. Actually controlling the instrument, using proper vibrato, bending notes in tune, not fretting too hard, controlling the noise is a skill in itself that takes many years.

I'm doing super quality control. I'll have five tunes that I think are all good - before I would've put out all five tunes but now I'm just putting out that one out of the five that I think is the banger.

With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.

There's only one cook in the kitchen, only one chef. I let the soloists do their thing - you've gotta let a man do a solo the way he wants - but as far as picking the tunes and working on the arrangements, I take full responsibility for it.

I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic.

I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes.

Turkey's energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.

Everyone must turn to Infowars as a standard to be saved. Tell folks, 'Hey, it's the most censored thing in the world for a reason. Jones is dialed in. Jones knows what's going on.'