Quotes About Control

It's very rare when we are in control of everything. Sure, I can learn my lines, I can know my character really well, but there are so many factors going on throughout the day.

It's so rare to see a woman lose control and also gain it back. Women are always told, 'Oh, be in control of your feelings,' and a woman is never allowed to express her anger without being demonised as being PMS-y.

It's important not to lose a ball. It's rare for the team to lose the ball. You have to be careful.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position.

A crucial responsibility of any central bank is to control inflation, the average rate of increase in the prices of a broad group of goods and services.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

I'm the daughter of proud immigrants myself, but it's clear that successive federal governments have allowed the rate of immigration to NSW to balloon out of control.

The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the marketplace.

I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.

I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of 'Grey's.' It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.

My job is making irrational people do rational things.

We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.

I don't know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It's mad, and it just wants to destroy.

I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.

I hate seeing people getting a raw deal and artists not being in control of what they are doing. It happens all the time.

Take Google Maps or Waze. On the one hand, they amplify human ability - you are able to reach your destination faster and more easily. But at the same time, you are shifting the authority to the algorithm and losing your ability to find your own way.

A doctor or lawyer who has reached the top can stay there or move on to higher prestige positions. But an actor of comparable competence and success and age has little or no control over his career.

I don't react and think off emotions - that gets you in a bad situation.

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

There are things we can control and the things we can't control. I can't control how people react to the work I do.

People can press your buttons and make you react... but it's not under your control.