Quotes About Control

HCL and Wipro are largely controlled by one family, so a strife with the board is not possible.

I want to strike out less than 20 times.

I'm not always trying to strike out guys. It just kind of happens sometimes.

While bringing up my kids I had to strike a balance between being strict and being able to maintain my cool.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

That's when I'm at my best. When I can throw a fastball over in the count, just throw strikes both in and away, it just sets up all my stuff.

I can throw strikes any time.

Striking out batters was easy.

The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

I don't stress about the outcome because I know the only thing I have control over is my own hard work. So long as I'm being honest about that and striving to be the best version of myself, I'm happy.

If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.

We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.

You can roll the ball a long way with a stroke that has the force of a five-yard chip. Good rhythm and less effort are how you control the putterface and, in turn, the ball.

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.

Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.