Quotes About Control

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

I'm trying to make sure that I get to my 0-2, 1-2 counts. That's really how I would rather phrase it: I'm trying to make sure that I can drive the count into my favor.

It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.

A cat is incredibly physical, and as a performer, I'm physical. If I feel emotions, they move through my body in a way that is sensual. I'm not necessarily in control of that.

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.

I couldn't change the fact that I did my ACL, but I could control how I reacted to it. That's what I focused on, becoming stronger mentally and physically.

I'm in control of what I'm doing physically and mentally. I feel good. I've always felt confident and comfortable going into seasons, but each year I feel like I'm getting better and better.

As a physician concerned with the significant impact of obesity health, it is my mission to encourage children and adults to take control of their own lifestyle choices.

Rather than redistribute physician income as a way to subsidize an expansion of government control, Mr. Obama should fix the payment system to align incentives with improved care.

I'd no more listen to a physicist's advice on my fertility than I would let a mechanic cut my hair.

Laws of physics don't necessarily apply to real-life political situations.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

In the ring, you want every one of the 80,000 people in the building to know what you're feeling. On a movie set, every expression you make is going to get picked up times 10. They kept having to dial me back.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

People come to me and they're like, 'You're hand picking fighters.' I don't pick my fights.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

I haven't done many commercials, and I'm very picky about it because it comes down to creative control.

I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

I have a genuine philosophy. I do not want to make negative pictures about people, and so I do everything I can to help make them feel comfortable in front of the camera. That is what is going to control your picture, because you are alone if your subject is not with you. And that's the simple answer to getting a good picture.

The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.