Quotes About Control

I want everything that I've worked for to go into my pocket. I want all my money to come to me. I'm very much hands-on with my career, and I like to do what I want in the studio - I don't like being told, 'do it this way' or 'do it that way.'

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

I've got to have two hands on the ball when I'm leaving the pocket, when I'm moving in the pocket.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

There comes a point in everybody's life where you either learn to handle things or you get handled.

Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.

I want to make sure the other point guard can't start his offense until 12 or 13 seconds. Then I've put my team in position to defend just one pick-and-roll and one pass.

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.

I know one thing for sure that Salman Khan has crazy pointers about everybody and he has a very different point of view about things. He would think from every angle and I am always scared of those people who would control my mental balance and just make me doubt myself.

When it comes to dieting, I'm the kind of person that likes to be told what to do. I don't like to count points, etc. I don't want to have a lot of choices.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

It's tough to control the ball on the clay.

I don't like people cleaning my room.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

As cliche as it sounds, I've always told myself, 'Don't worry about the things you can't control. Control the things you can control.' That battle has beat up on me for years.

All clients think that they are architects.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.