Quotes About Control

To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it's never done; it's never perfect, and so it's the process. It's like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.

When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological control of the society was almost absolute.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

I'm controlling over anything I create. I'm very precious about it.

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

As a spinner, you need to be very precise in Australia. Every run you give must be on your own terms.

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

Acting is many things, and one is an exercise of will. In any given scene, you're trying to find where the drama and conflict is and then deploy the actors to play at that point of conflict with precision, control, and complete will.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

And journaling became the place that I was able to find a sense of narrative control at a time when I had to cede so much control to others. It really - it became the place where I began to interrogate my predicament and to try to excavate some meaning from it.

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

I didn't feel as though, when I was a child, I had much control of my environment. I felt powerless. And that gave me a sense of predictability.

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.

There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

I prefer to be the captain of the ship, call the shots and be more creative.