Quotes About Control

You worry about how you're throwing the ball, how you're executing your pitches.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

It's hard for any man to take something thrown at his face and not to retaliate.

For me, it's about controlling what I can control. I can't control where I'm going to be put on the pitch. I can only control my effort and my ability to embrace anything thrown at me.

There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.

You can so easily be dismissed as a thug or hysterical if you're a woman if you don't keep your rage in check.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact.

They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren.

Contrary to Eastern Europe, where the border was more porous and you could exchange information more easily, Cuba is an island. Thus, it is more isolated, and it's easier for the government to have great control over its citizens.

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.

With Bayern, we want a lot of ball possession and to control the play, so I operate sometimes like the 11th outfield player. Thus I am included a lot into the build-up play and have a lot of touches of the ball.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

I've got to literally write my own ticket.