Quotes About Control

I get a little uptight if things aren't going the way I think they should be going.

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

When I go to work, I don't want to make depressing, gritty, urban stories that are depressing to watch. I want to give people something to enjoy. When people think I'm a control freak and an ogre - which I am - it's only because I want my work to be accessible and Everyman, in a way.

A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.

You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.

The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

Trying to fix another person will only add to my anxiety. Letting Jesus work on me is where real progress can happen.

It's the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard — but when you move, you do not suffer. That's the feeling I am looking for.

You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.