Top 1200 Damage Control Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

As an actor, you are sort of only in charge of yourself. All you can really control is your performance. You don't know what they're going to do with it in the editing room, what they're going to cut out, which take they're going to use. You know, your control is very limited. As a director, it's ultimately your piece. You have a lot more responsibility, but you also have a lot more creative control. It's scary, but also liberating in a way.

I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.

Whether a president can truly improve, or damage, an economy remains an open question.

Texas has a pressing need for a single governmental body to provide overall flood control management for the watersheds affecting major population areas and guide state and local flood control policy.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

Money is a tool that can either fix or damage your life. Use it wisely.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

There's something about us as stand-ups that when we're on our feet, we feel more in control of the situation and in control of our bodies and our delivery.

'Damage' is about taking risks, stepping into new territory regardless of the outcome.

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer.

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

I don't know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

If in the script there is an argument about gun control, the most precious document you could produce at 'The West Wing' that week is a passionate, intelligent case against gun control. We know how to do the other one.

I don't take a guy down just to hold him, I look for damage and submissions.

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.

Never lend money to a friend. It's dangerous. It could damage his memory.

I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily.

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.

The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control the military and not have the military control the military.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

I'm in my 30's, and I'm still struggling with defining myself. I'm working every day to take control of things that are out of my control, and not letting them bring me down or frustrate me, to the point of paralysis.

I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.

The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

A lot of things are going to happen that you can't necessarily control all the time, but you can control what you do after it happens. So that's what I try to do, keep my head up, keep moving forward, stay positive and just work hard.

There is always pressure in this game and outside of it but as long as you control what you can control the pressure will be used to my advantage, like what the saying goes 'no pressure, no diamonds'.

No NSA director did as much damage to the agency as Gen. Michael V. Hayden.

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.

Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.