Quotes About Control

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in.

I don't think anything affects my nerves.

I'm confident and when you have power like me, it relaxes your nerves.

The nerves are still there. I might just do a better job at hiding them.

My nerves sometimes hijack my body and I am no longer in the driver's seat.

Be very nervous of the shaky hands.

I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.

With directing, it's all out there, in the moment and in real-time. The pressure and all of the eyes are on you, and you've gotta do it. That is the place that made me nervous.

I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

We're all controlled neurotics.

I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'