Quotes About Control

One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

I'm not very good with cars. They rebel against me.

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

When we're playing, I really shape my body to receive the ball - even before it gets to me.

I always had to mask my emotions. I could never show that I missed my mom or my dad, especially when they moved to America. My grandparents were tough. I was not allowed to receive letters that had not been read before. Everything was controlled - everything!

In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.

You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

I like playing just outside of my own penalty box, the player who receives the ball and organises the game.

Before I receive the ball I already know how that play is developing so I'm able to give rhythm to that play.

The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not in my control.

You need to receive the ball and be assertive with it.

I think I was pretty reckless and definitely a bit out of control. Now, I'm more focused.

The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

You can't put your name, recognition, your money in a company without having share in the control.

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration.

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can't control it.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

The future is to heal back to the mind again. Recognizing that the mind is all powerful - it controls every cell to every degree of its genetic expression.

By recognizing that infectious disease is not some faraway exotic issue but a global problem, and by sharing the responsibility for its prevention, diagnosis, and control, the whole world will be a lot safer.