The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
I don't control the political world.
I wolf food down like you've never seen. For some reason, I have no self-control when it comes to the pace of eating.
I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.
When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.
When my sister decided that she wanted to act, I was so nervous for her. She's doing great, but I have a lot of friends at every level of success as an actor, and we all go through periods of time where they feel like their worth isn't within their own control. That's a horrible feeling for an adult to have.
I'd rather not have to come face to face with predators. I'd rather not be harassed. But no. Those weren't my choices to make, were they?
I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.
We’re becoming an undisciplined people …
We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.
We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.
All the projects that I am part of get delayed for reasons beyond my control!
My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?
I felt that I didn't get a fair chance at Texas Tech to compete, for an assortment of reasons, but reasons I couldn't really control.
When you are an actor, you are in the most powerless position in this business.
It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.
If something goes wrong with my switch, there's no way anyone from Bharti can do anything about it. An Ericsson guy is going to have to come and fix it. I don't manufacture it; I can't maintain or upgrade it. So I'm thinking, 'This doesn't really belong to me. Let's just throw it out.'
In opposition, there's not much one can do. One doesn't have the carrot and one doesn't have the stick. One can't promote and one can't fire. And persuasion has its limits.
Successful stress management heavily revolves around combating the building blocks of psychological stress - a feeling as if you have no control over the adversities in your life, a feeling that you have no predictive information about the stressors, if you lack outlets for the frustrations caused by the stressors, if you have no social support.
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
