Quotes About Control

I want it to be one-sided. I don't want to take any bumps or bruises: I want to go out and dictate all aspects and go out the way I came in. I'm looking to dominate and dictate.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.

People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels.

You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.

I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have it exist there and not inside you. It's a way to control things.

Yeah, I get frustrated. But I try not to let those frustrations get out into the media or get out onto the court in my play.

I just control what I can control. Getting better every time I step onto the floor.

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not.

Whether it's a car or boat or motorcycle, it's a dangerous item, so you have to show a level of competence and get a license before you're allowed to operate something that's dangerous. Guns are dangerous but you don't have to get a license to operate guns.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera operator, so I shot a lot of miniatures.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.