Quotes About Control

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

You can't control some things in football, but you can control how we view things and how we work.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

The abuser knows where you work. Even if a woman goes underground at night, the abuser knows where to find her during the day.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

Wherever I sit is the head of the table.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.

The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

One of the things I think has been important for Blizzard is maintaining the direct relationship with our players. Having a platform that we owned and controlled was important for that strategy, and also to not be dependent on other publishers.

China's propaganda approach with the West is different than the one used by the Soviet Union, which used Western belligerence to maintain its control over its domestic audience. China's strategy is one of influence and inertia.

Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us back on track.

In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry streak becomes public.

I really enjoy working, you know, on streaming outlets because there's so much creative control for the creators of the shows, and, you know, you're allowed to make such great television.

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

Our police officers are on the front line of a battle to maintain control of our streets.