Uncontrollable Factors Quotes

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant Commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations — all take their seats at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.

You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

There is no sure solution to some dangers.

When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.

Life can't be always be stable always right. There are things which are out of your control.

I think hard work is definitely a huge thing, but there is something, if you want to call it luck or whatever - a window of opportunity - that is totally outside of your control, and it's that thing that will sometimes separate a good career from a great career.

People are unpredictable at the end of the day.

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.

All the projects that I am part of get delayed for reasons beyond my control!

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

I did nothing to look the way I look. The genetic cards that anyone is dealt are not in their control, so to take pride in my looks would be a mistake. And besides, in L.A. there's always someone more beautiful!

There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.