Quotes About Being A Control Freak

#1. Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.

Judith Orloff

#2. Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#3. Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

Robert Breault

#4. I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.

Max Tundra

#5. When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you're speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you're speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly.

Paul Dano

#6. Are you fangalicious? -Jess, a random blogger
I could never be as fangalicious as you'd want me to be.-Fang

James Patterson

#7. I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt.

J.A. Konrath

#8. I find traveling anywhere very stressful. If I ever have to go on tour, I tend to find it all a bit too stressful. I am too much of a control freak with traveling, and nothing is ever on time. The one thing I can't stand is being late.

Mark Billingham

#9. This is my dream, It is my own dream, I dreamt it. I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

Ogden Nash

#10. Asking questions is the key to understanding.

John Piper

#11. I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.

Graham King

#12. People laugh as I pass. They're judging me and their judgment is spot on. I don't belong here. I never have.

Katie McGarry

#13. We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'

Bjorn Lomborg

#14. Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

Gabriel Iglesias

#15. I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I've hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver ... for a control freak like me, it ain't gonna happen!

Keri Russell

#16. Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation.

J.D. Salinger

#17. Am I a control freak? No. Do I believe in organization? You bet. In discipline? In being on time and making sure everything at the hotel is ready and right? Definitely. I don't control players. I try to control the environment around the players so they can flourish.

Pat Riley

#18. When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

Josh Homme