Quotes About Control

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

I basically like a bit more control. Even in my personal life, I need things to be done on time. If it's not done, I get impatient.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

I believe in hard work. So that's not changed. And my love for cinema is something I was born with. But, personally, I am more in control of my emotions and because my focus is work, personal life is all about family and friends and my two dogs.

In Indiana, I knew the offense in and out. I knew spacing; I knew personnel. I knew the offense, how coach wanted to play me. So when I just wanted to take over and control the game, I could.

I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

War is a perversion of sex.

Cats don't like change without their consent.

My biggest pet peeve is rushing.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

I don't want to be one of those bosses... taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'

I always had a sense of where I was going with 'Dark Phoenix.' Jean had the greatest power imaginable... and, how's she going to deal with that?

Communism is like one big phone company.

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.

Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately.