Quotes About Control

My game plan - doesn't matter who I play - is to play on my terms, to control as much as I can, to try to get control of the centre of the court, to try to dictate and make them move, to be their director rather than letting them impose their game on me.

I really feel that if you impose your will on somebody, eventually they'll break.

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids.

When you see Zlatan up close, he's even more imposing than on the television. Zlatan is very, very big, very strong, and his control of the ball is incredible. It can seem like he's not there, and then he goes and scores the decisive goal.

Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

I was impressed by the braking power an F1 car has.

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

I'm gonna be pretty honest; there wasn't a lot of improv allowed on 'Eclipse.'

I get quite frustrated about a lot of things on a day-to-day basis. I can't help it; it is an impulse with me.

We humans actually need help controlling our impulses - nudges.

Advertisers rip out one another's conscience to control the spending impulses of males ages 18 to 34, who now have the cyber world at their fingertips. They want more.

Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.

In my opinion taking charge of a well-prepared team is not a big job.

I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving.

I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.