Quotes About Control

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

We're trying to get the pandemic under control. We're trying to put people back to work. I don't find that boring.

If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.

I like being on stage more. That's stress free. Being on the panel is a big responsibility and you need to keep a check on a lot of things.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

Panic is a horrible thing.

It's nice to have someone at the helm who can give you piece of mind and does not panic.

With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.

Everything has got a place in my house. If something is moved I get a panic attack.

We don't live our life on panic.

I never panic.

There is a difference between caution and panic.

I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.

One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.

John would drink, too, but he would stop. After a while, John would say, 'I've had enough, I don't want to be in the papers.'

I'm not a guy who wants to skydive and open my parachute at the last minute. I want to open my parachute right away and know what's coming.

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into the machine, and I know what is going to come out of it.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.