Quotes about Control

An old Scot used to say to us, 'If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

I'm not one of those artists that can go away for six months and tour America and have 20 producers back in London or L.A. doing everything for me and I just come home and sing on it. It would be really useful, in terms of speed, to work like that. I just wouldn't find it creatively satisfying. I have to have my hand on the remote control.

A large user base helps shield us from things we can't control. You can spend years catering to a major corporation, for example, only to see your contact there move on.

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.