Dictate Quotes

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.