Quotes About Control

In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

The Left have always preferred the state to the family.

Birth control is an important part of women's healthcare. It allows women to plan and time their pregnancies, and reduces preterm births and maternal complications.

I want to have my children, but I don't want to look like I have them. You're not really allowed to say that. Some days I go, 'It is what it is.' But sometimes I carry it around like a shame that I've gained so much weight while I was pregnant, and I lost control.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

I do find that there's a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.

All I can do is control my preparation process from both a physical and mental stand point.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.

The only thing I can control is my preparation and how I play games and how I practice.

Iran believes that before Imam Mahdi reappears, it must prepare a fertile ground for him and that it must control the Muslim world.

When you prepare for something, it's hard to be nervous.

I don't believe that if one door closes, that's the end. You're in control of that, but you need to seek opportunities and prepare for them.

I have no control of life. I have to prepare myself for any situation.

All we're in control of is what we do day to day on set and how we prepare to do our job each day.

All I can really control is how I prepare and get ready for whatever team picks me.

As players we are in control of what we do and the way we prepare for the games.

Fame is a beast that you can't control or be prepared for.