Quotes About Control

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

Rather than feeling that every moment you've got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.

Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.