Quotes About Control

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me.

For me, love is such a beautiful thing and I love that you actually have no control over it.

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

The audience has a level of control, when you watch 'Invisible,' that nothing in 2D can give you. The overall climax of the series will work no matter how you get there, and the climax of each episode will work no matter how you get there, but no two viewings of an episode will ever be the same.

Usually a captain will allow his bowler to set the field, while exercising overall control and maintaining the authority to step in if he sees fit.

When I started out in stand-up, I was already used to speaking in front of people, how to project, control my voice - a lot of learning curves I had overcome.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

Law and politics are often overly complicated because there are people that don't want the rest of us to know what's going on.

We have institutionalized a drone program where the oversight is almost completely internalized.

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

Most of my family is severely overweight. It's been taxing to keep my weight under control.

I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.

It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.

I don't think I've ever felt overwhelmed on an ice rink.

But people never really "do as they're told." The difference between for-profit and volunteer organizations is that in the for-profit world people do get paid and so they are willing to give up some control to the boss, to accept at least some direction. But they don't give up all control. You couldn't pay them enough for that.

When communication happens only over the hierarchy lines, that's a priori evidence that the managers are trying to hold on to all control. This is not only inefficient but an insult to the people underneath.

When you automate a previously all-human system, it becomes entirely deterministic.

Each of these standards says, in effect, "I will dictate to you exactly how you must do every aspect of the work Ã¢â'¬Â¦ except the hard part.

Process standardization from on high is disempowerment. It is a direct result of fearful management, allergic to failure.

The gun was like his guitar: a thing that had power because of the hole in the middle. Maybe like Ingersoll, too, for that matter.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.