#control

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#career #control #does #doing #even

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conscious #conscious mind #control #emotions #fueled

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?' ↗

— Barack Obama

#democrats #done #house #i #know

Stay small and control it yourself. ↗

— Bruce Oldfield

#small #stay #yourself

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#career #comes #control #desk #engineer

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.' ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#because #better #career #comes #control

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. ↗

— James Madison

#controls #external #govern #government #greatest

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#control #does #fate #him #his

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#control #director #egos #everything #give

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#affecting #against #birth #birth control #carries