Quotes About Control

That's how a storm with such power happens; you sense the build and darkness, you prepare as best you can, you do what you can to get through it even as it devastates your entire world. Whatever you do, however much you brace yourself, you will still be caught up in forces that you cannot control. So the question is how to navigate through the chaos. It takes thought, and trust, and serenity.

I was fitted with a specially designed compression filter that allows excessive information to lie dormant until I need to access it. It's only the beta version, so excuse any kinks that may appear. I really can't be held responsible.

I have terrible urges, Mr. Kapasi, to throw things away. One day I had the urge to throw everything I own out the window, the television, the children, everything. Don't you think it's unhealthy?

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

I think it is an imperfect arms control agreement. It's not a friendship treaty. But when America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies.

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

Organization is the Devil's work.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

You have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's an interesting propaganda task, but it's been carried out very well.

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

We're not going to end the Medicaid. We're going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to make Medicaid work.

Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest .

I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'