Quotes About Control

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.

In life, you can't control what other people are going to do; you can't control how they're going to behave. All you can control is how you're going to react.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

I can't control how other people are going to react. I can't control what other people are going to say to me.

Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.

When you screw with somebody's sense of ownership of something, that's when they react.

On stage, you have the instant reaction. I'm in control of my own destiny up there. If I fail, I can always say, 'I should have read that audience better. I don't know why I went in that direction.' In the commercial world, you're not writing your character.

Your reaction when you lose control in a situation is to try and hang on tighter.

When I'm fighting, I'm trying to find a reaction. I try to make the guy move; I try to make him do things that I want him to do. If he likes moving a certain way, I try to set something up so I catch him if he moves that way.

When you react to things, that's when you get into trouble and it's tough to completely control a split-second reaction.

The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.

What we can control is our readiness.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too.

I believe that Reagan's a radical on arms control.