Quotes About Control

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.

Set goals, work hard, trust yourself, and only stress over what you can control.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

The mentality, that's something you should be able to control. Whether you are healthy or not, how fast you can run - they aren't things you can work on, but the mentality should be.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

What empowers me in my daily work and life is the knowledge that I will be guided, if I let go of my need to control. That I need only to leave space for grace to work in me.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

My worst work happens when I get obedient.

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.