Control Obsession Quotes

The boards had to be beautiful in Steve [Jobs]'s eyes when you looked at them, even though when he created the Macintosh he made it impossible for a consumer to get in the box, because he didn't want people tampering with anything.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

If you can't control everything, you can't control anything, not really.

I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Their ideology requires them to get power but never give up power.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.

She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.