Quotes About Control

If Bronze Bomber got loose in the streets, it won't be something nice.

If Congress grants permission, I would put armed forces in the streets.

Everyone has their special strength. And my strength is to have the ball and start good things with it.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Reliable and affordable energy is the foundation of America's strength. Without it, our prosperity and security can fall outside our control.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

We do need to strengthen our security at the border.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby - any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality.

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

When evaluating the players, too little emphasis is placed on the individual. Reaction times are measured, stress situations are simulated, sleep behaviour is analysed, eating behaviour, how the body reacts - everything is available. The control over the players has got out of hand. They are judged on this data, albeit subjectively. That's madness.

Successful stress management heavily revolves around combating the building blocks of psychological stress - a feeling as if you have no control over the adversities in your life, a feeling that you have no predictive information about the stressors, if you lack outlets for the frustrations caused by the stressors, if you have no social support.

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

We stress out over things we can't control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.

The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.

The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

When we are angry with someone, we empower the person we hate the most in that moment to make us stressed out or even sick. That's not smart.

From an early age, my father stressed the power of the image, and he encouraged me to carefully control my own. He advised me, for example, never to be photographed from below, an often unflattering angle for women.

I am calm but on the outside, mostly. When I'm on a film set, the stress is so humongous that I'm dying inside - I'm extremely stressed, but I do try, and... well, I don't try. I think it's my natural reaction to not externalize things.