Quotes About Control

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it's five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is.

With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.

Get your emotions out of the way in the rehearsals.

The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.

More government control of doctors and their reimbursement schemes will only create more problems.

The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

The false black preacher is only too happy to reinforce the idea of the white man as scapegoat. His sermons make the congregation angrier and more bitter. And the angrier they become, the easier it is for the minister to control them.

It's important to drive your own ship, and it's your career, so you might as well take it by the reins.

I guess when you're holding the creative reins, you can be across everything, and it's more authentic. You can control it.

I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

We kind of established in Sons of Apollo right from the get go that it would be a very collaborative process musically, but after that, I was going to take the reins and control everything else beyond that the way I did with Dream Theater.

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

A lot of people offered me to go public, but I have always rejected it.

Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

Women are often forced to maintain good relations with men who abuse them precisely because those men have power.

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.