Quotes About Control

Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.

QTE is a very strange thing... it really depends on what you expect from your game experience.

Exercising power can do strange things to people. You can become convinced that you're irreplaceable. You can become convinced that you're always right. And I think the danger is the longer you stay in power, the more likely that is to happen.

I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.

When a dictatorship imprisons someone or makes them disappear, it's actually a very strategic move. We forget that. It's not as senseless as it seems. It's a way to silence someone, but also it's a way to silence their family as well, out of fear, and society by extension.

The dictator has to keep the economy functioning in order to keep stealing from it.

If the Force is the dream, you are the dreamer, and sometimes you have to wake up. Sometimes you are all you have.

Carbohydrates, however, are not essential nutrients but powerful endorphin-activating drugs that are not controlled by the genetic hunger-satiety feedback system.

personal conversation last year, "SQL is the new HTML." Database management is a core competency of Web 2.0 companies, so much so that we have sometimes referred to these applications as "infoware" rather than merely software. This fact leads to a key question: Who owns the data? In the internet era, one can already see a number of cases where control over the database has led to market control and outsized financial returns. The

what we believe to be the core competencies of Web 2.0 companies: Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data

In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.

For as the poets and the warriors fell by the wayside the bureaucrats took over.

Collins' comment was: 'a captain who sent his crew to sea, and tried to direct operations from dry land'.

Dealing with police and politics were the pivotal props of the system...

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

I like plans. They create a comforting illusion of sanity and order.

I don't want awesome powers. They come with awesome responsibilities, and those suck.

Once you've thrown your pilot chute, you're done. It's out of your hands. From that moment on you just enjoy the view or panic.

Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable

Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things, and harder to be distracted by the wrong things.

We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it." You embrace it. You trust yourself to handle whatever you're dealing with, and don't allow your fear to escalate into uncontrollable doubt. If you ever see me at a game, you'll see no emotion from me.

The satisfaction doesn't come from the risk, it comes from mastering it. I own this.