Quotes About Control

If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

I have that balance of having fun - because I can need to have a ton of fun - but also locking it in at times.

Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

Tennis is such a fun game. One of the things that I really like is that everything depends on you. Before certain matches, you might have those butterflies, but that's the excitement. There's a ton of emotion that you're going through.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

As producers, we can influence where the budget goes, but only the director really controls what tone, what type of movie you are trying to make.

Alexander Payne is one of those directors who is completely in charge and knows exactly what he wants, which is really fun. It's fun when a director is very specific. He knows totally the tone that he's going for. It makes it easier than if everyone's just guessing and trying to figure it out.

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

You have more of an opportunity than people think to impact a game through the tone that you can set. You can't control everything, setting that tone is important.

I think I'm at my best when I'm on the ball, I'm feeling the game, I feel free, and I'm setting the tone for the game.

It's so funny to think about it now, but I kind of toned everything down about myself for 'Idol.' When it came down to song choices, or hair choices, or stuff like that, producers had the final say. I never got to sing, for instance, a female artist's song.

I'm tired of biting my tongue.

For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.

You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

I'm hurtling down bumpy, choppy water very close to being out of control, doing everything I can to stay on my board. One misstep and you're going to get squashed by tons of water. To not get hurt, I need to take everything into consideration: strength, nutrition and mind-set.

Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.

I don't think the Lakers could control Tony Parker's ability to get into the paint, so his health is the key for San Antonio.

Tony Blair personified the shift away from democracy, towards control by bankers.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

That's one thing that I've always wanted: to make my own decisions and not to be pushed. That has happened in my career, and I wanted to leave football, not football to leave me. I wanted to enjoy it as much as I could and to leave it a little bit earlier than too late.