Quotes About Control

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes.

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.

We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.

Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

The best comedies are the ones where the person who's in charge is the one with the vision who's said, 'I'm staying with this till the very end.'

In gambling we say you are 'on tilt' when your mood gets in the way of making your best decisions. And nobody plays well on tilt.

It was Tim Burton's 'Batman' in, what, '89, I think? What we could see was there was someone behind the curtain controlling all of this, and you could see it from one Tim Burton film to the next, that the guy who made 'Edward Scissorhands' also made 'Batman.' You could connect the dots because his style was so distinct.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

But I wasn't getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I think I finally took a couple deep breaths and let myself get my timing back.

I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.