Quotes About Control

Affluence means influence.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

I guess I don't really feel like I have that much power to influence that many people.

I was highly influenced by violence.

Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

The fact that my environment influences my life so much - and that my environment is in my control - gives me a great sense of empowerment over my health and my life.

A manager can never accept somebody at the top influencing his decisions about the team.

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.

Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.

Cooking at home with fresh ingredients means you know what's going into your food.

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we want to write about.

The problem that we've had is four media companies run media, globally. And some say they're on the Right and some say they're on the Left; look, they're all afraid of losing Ford as a client. So they're all, by definition, huge companies that are going to be inherently conservative.

I didn't choose to get anorexia. I may have made some childhood-like choices to try to control something. 'I know what I'll do: I'll just not eat.' That was the initial point, but then it spiraled and became a disease - not a choice by any means.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that's just how things go.

You can't control injuries, can't control guys getting fired and stuff like that.

I had obviously a freak injury right when I got there and there's a lot of things that were kind of out of my control when I was in Boston.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.