Quotes About Control

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels dance on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

I like to be the captain of my ship and be involved with everything from stage production, merch, art, and rollouts.

She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.

You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.

If you're listening consciously, you can take control of the sound around you. It's good for your health and for your productivity. If we all do that, we move to a state that I like to think will be sound living in the world.

We're so overregulated as a country that we just crushed our productivity.

It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that's true of any profession and hierarchy with a boss. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job, and then you have the ones that just hover around.

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

You get a little older, and you start understanding the world in a different way and what you don't have control over and what you do have control over.

I've had matches go 38 minutes. To be able to move for 38 minutes and have somebody's life in your hands is a difficult thing.

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

I can't imagine the difficulty of going from coaching a college team where you control your own environment to coming to a pro-style where the players control the environment.

Rupert Murdoch has been around since the dinosaurs. He knows how to get around any independent board - as he did with me, and as he's done with other editors as well.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

I don't like to direct myself.

Every actor wants to direct.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

I don't direct the plays of others.