Quotes About Control

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.

Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

I think all dancers are control freaks a bit. We just want to be in control of ourselves and our bodies. That's just what the ballet structure, I think, kind of puts inside of you.

When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

I'm very structured. I like planning things out. I get frustrated when they don't go according to plan.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

I struggle with control.

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

So Kratos is always angry, and he spent a considerable amount of time after 'God of War' trying to be away from people and trying to figure out how to get control of that. So it is this kind of internal struggle for him at all times.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.

Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favoring your own services over others, they have struggled because there has been more than one court case in which it was asserted the FCC didn't have the authority to punish ISPs for abusing their control over the broadband channel.

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

We realize all the struggles we have and all the things that catch our attention and our hearts - if we're not ready for it, it will take control of us.