Quotes About Control

I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.

I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

It's time for artists to take their music back.

Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack)

Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi)

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

The reality is that these cases are happening all the time. It's when they get out of control that you have a problem.

You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

Most of the time, stuff doesn't just happen to us-we make it happen by what we do and the way we are.

Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.