Quotes About Control

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

I'm a perfectionist and want things to be done now.

I tell myself that my body is not robotic and it doesn't behave perfectly, and... things can go wrong that are out of your control.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

I don't like the fact that C.F.P.B. exists, I will be perfectly honest with you.

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

I feel sexy when I'm doing what I love - like when I'm singing or performing or something - that's when I feel the most in control and in my element.

No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering.

I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change.

My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

I will not permit anyone to put chaos and disorder in the country under any pretext.

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.