I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.
I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
I'm a free soul, not a soul who will be contained by rules that were made by people who want to control others.
I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.
In the modern desktop environment, with multitasking and alerts and constant activity, there are always more distractions. When you're at a computer, your hands are always on the controls.
No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!
I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.
The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.
We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.
Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else's hands.
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.
When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.
For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.