Control Quotes

• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Treat

• Money is a mechanism for control.

  

  David Korten
  • Money
  • Control

• The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Important
  • Power
  • Meetings

• It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Different
  • Control

• I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Think
  • Control

• Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.

  

  James Altucher
  • Business
  • Career
  • Value

• For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Feeling
  • Poetry
  • Language

• Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Simple
  • Powerful
  • Buddha

• The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Control

• Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • Control

• Brick and mortar stores will ultimately mark down between 50 to 60% of its merchandise because they don't know who's walking in the door on any day, so they lose control.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Control
  • Door
  • Walking

• I'm not a fan of taking too long in the studio. I always do one vocal take and jump out of the control room, and people push me back in... It's a real turn-off to hear things that are too polished. I feel like I've almost fought for the right to be that kind of musician - we used to be on a major label, and now we're on an indie.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Summer

• I just focus on what I can control, and that's how hard I play and my attitude.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Control
  • Focus
  • Attitude

• Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Mind
  • Play
  • Ballet

• I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Work
  • Control
  • I Can

• That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • High
  • Feeling

• As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Winning
  • Win

• If a better person emerges, I will hand over management control.

  

  Jay Y. Lee
  • Control
  • Hand
  • Management

• A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Control
  • Die
  • Firefighter

• Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.

  

  Derrick Grayson
  • America
  • Mistake
  • Gun

• I don't start fights, but sometimes I don't walk away from them. It hasn't happened in a long time, but it's happened, and I regret those times. I should have been more in control of myself, stronger, more adult.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Time
  • Long
  • Regret

• After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Control
  • Trust

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