Quotes About Control

The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.

The tip I would give is that once you play the shot, make sure your chin is touching the cue after you hit the cue ball.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Everybody has a breaking point. It's tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger.

We used tough methods to show what's wrong and what's right. Against those who didn't understand, we led a tough and even cruel struggle.

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

I laugh a lot, especially between shots, and it's tough for me to control. There have been so many instances where my director had to request me to stop laughing and come into the mood of the scene.

It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.

The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.

When you're doing something like wrestling - wrestling is one of the toughest and hardest martial arts to learn - but it's still a form of martial arts. It's still controlled.

Life can be very challenging. But I've always believed that God is always in control, even when you are going through challenges. Nothing catches him by surprise. It's all part of his plan. I rely on that even during the toughest of times.

There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

Whether it's space tourism or really interesting missions to the moon or Mars, you really need a healthy capital ecosystem to make that happen. Nation states and governments have the control, but unless the financing is sustainable, it's hard to really keep them on that.

There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.

It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.