Alan Shearer Quotes

I basically like a bit more control. Even in my personal life, I need things to be done on time. If it's not done, I get impatient.

I'm very structured. I like planning things out. I get frustrated when they don't go according to plan.

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.

I just have to be very, very organised.

I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.

I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

I am a type-A planner. That's just how I roll.

I'm very strong willed and I'm very impatient as well.

I've always talked and like to organise as much as possible.

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.

Our mother always taught us to be in control of our voice and our bodies and our work, and she showed us that through her example. If she conjured up an idea, there was not one element of that idea that she was not going to have her hand in. She was not going to hand that over to someone. And I think it's been an interesting thing to navigate, especially watching you do the same in all aspects of your work: Society labels that a control freak, an obsessive woman, or someone who has an inability to trust her team or to empower other people to do the work, which is completely untrue.

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.

How can you call it unreasonable when all I want is my own way?

The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.