Quotes About Control

Tactics flow from a superior position.

Bucko allowed me to go with my first instinct on the ice: never get rid of the puck when you can control it. Hold on to it, and let the play open up in front of you. And again, it keeps coming back to those days on outdoor rinks or rivers or bays, where we simply skated and handled the puck for hours on end. That training allowed me to do the things I did as a player, and my coaches in turn allowed those skills to develop.

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

Most of all I enjoy central-heating control rooms, where men with higher education, chained to their jobs like dogs to their kennels, write the history of their times as a sort of sociological survey and where I learned how the fourth estate was depopulated and the proletariat went from base to superstructure and how the university-trained elite now carries on its work.

Tote? maj?c lat osiemna?cie, panna Izabela tyranizowa?a m??czyzn ch?odem.

You're not supposed to have salt." "I'm not supposed to have cancer, either. If you don't bring me some brandy, I'm kicking you off my property.

Learning to swim meant learning how to relinquish control, to thrive in a space of uncertainty.

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

The moment of surrender is the moment you choose to lose control of your life, the split second of powerlessness where you trust that some kind of "higher power" better be in charge, because you certainly aren't.

Suicide offers quick authority over a life that feels it has lost all agency.

I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.

One of the highest and surest signs of civilization is that a people have learned to obey the commands of those who are placed over them.

I have learned that it is pretty hard to keep anything from the newspapers that the newspapers think the public wants to know.

We are the Borg lower your shields and surrender your weapons!

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

You can make a throne of bayonets, but you cant sit on it for long.

The way to have power is to take it.

To say that a government that serves the people is allowed to disarm the people is a simple contradiction in terms and a legal impossibility. — Donald M. Smith

To become the master of his circumstances--to override them, as the stately ship overrides the waves, stormy or smooth, as her obedient element--not 'whelmed and lost in them--this is the aim and effort of every loftier nature.

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.