Quotes About Control

You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're just their puppet.

It's very important that we give a voice to the voiceless in terms of media; because media is a global phenom and it portrays you dependent upon what controls you have and the writers are doing great work.

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

Certainly, every student and school ought to have standards and evaluation, but who sets those standards, and who writes the test? Whoever controls the test controls the school.

History teaches me that the dollar rules and whoever writes history writes it however they want.

It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life.

Men were beasts. Everyone knew that.

Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler?

What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you? I don't know, but can you introduce me?

All tyrants were harsh, but fire was more ungovernable than most.

I care as much as I can, but I don't spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.

Use your talent at sorcery, don't be used by it.

The person who asks questions like yours always gets to choose the terms

He was rewarded with a promotion to immortality, there forever to caper with other immortal companions who sounded, frankly, a bit out of control.

There is a limit to what any farther can do.

For who was in thrall to whom, really? And could it ever be known? Each agent working in collusion and antagonism - like the cold and the sun alike creating a deadly spear of ice... Who is in thrall to whom? And while you wait to learn, the deadly icicle, formed by all opposing forces, falls and drives its cold nail into penetrable flesh.

Listen to me, sister," she said. "Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.

She wasn't Zeus, to cause Phaëthon to stop driving the chariot of bright Helios: she couldn't halt the daily chariot of crushing light and rushing time.

I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

Getting in control of our possessions makes us feel more in control of our fates. If this is an illusion, it's a helpful illusion--and it's a more pleasant way to live.

Technology is a good servant but a bad master.