Quotes About Control

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.

The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest.

You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.