Quotes About Control

The purpose of developing a methodology for what they call genetic control over seed, is mainly to ensure that F1 hybrids are pure and that every year you have to buy the seed.

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

The U.S. is not pure capitalism. In fact, there's no place for pure capitalism, unregulated capitalism. We have a regulated system.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

Congress has the constitutional responsibility to control the power of the 'purse'.

We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.

I saw an early cut of 'The Disaster Artist,' and I thought it was inspiring in a lot of ways, and it made me realize it had been so long since I had tried to make a film or to try to - you know, the book was obviously my first kind of big creative pursuit I had control over.

There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.

No one can tell you what to do or push you around. It gives you a secure feeling. That's the best thing about money.

I'm willing to give up a little control but not a lot. So I say I want the money, but when push comes to shove, I'm not sure I'll be able to compromise in order to make the big studio movie. Maybe something in between would be okay, like a low-budget studio film.

Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I've known so many great conductors that I'm still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.

Whenever the creation of a national, computerized database of gun owners is proposed, the advocates pushing it insist that people have nothing to fear because politicians will not abuse the enormous power inherent in such a database.

I get off on pushing people's buttons sometimes.

The last thing I'm trying to do is trying to look to go out into a fight. Ask anybody who knows me, I'm not the first guy to go around and just start pushing people.

I just kind of do my own thing, which has made me feel like a better player, a better pro because I'm in control of it. I don't have anybody who is pushing me to do something - I'm pushing myself.

You want to push a guy up against a cage, there's nothing like pushing a car.