Control Quotes

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

I like to control my own personal life.

Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.

Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.

Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.

Religion is just mind control.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.