Quotes About Control

You create many [dinosaurs] in a very short time, never learn anything about them, yet you expect them to do your bidding, because you made them and you therefore think you own them; you forget that they are alive, they have an intelligence of their own, and they may not do your bidding, and you forget how little you know about them....

But—as history has proven time and again—in the hands of human beings, increasing power is increasingly dangerous.

What's really wrong with making them the problem is that you abdicate your own responsibility. Once you say some mysterious they is in charge, then you're able to sit back comfortably and complain about how they are doing it.

I reminded myself our lives are made of changes we can't control. Letting little things happen is a good practice.

I think I know what frightens Clare - a certain ability to invent our own future has been lost. ... Now the good things are the predictable ones, and surprises mean bad news.

Dünyada en çok istediÄŸi ÅŸey, o olmayan ama t?pat?p onun gibi olan, yard?msever bir diktatörün idaresinde yaÅŸamakt? - ülkeyi gerçekten o (kendisi) yönetseydi, kar?? ç?kma, eleÅŸtirme hakk?ndan vazgeçmesi gerekecekti; eh, itiraz hakk? elinden al?nd??? an geriye ne kal?rd? ondan?

Better, then, to go light on the sexual particulars, and think instead of who's winning and who's losing at any given point. How is power being exchanged here? I want to say, "Who's on top?" But that would of course be sleazy, and just generally beneath me...

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Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.

Since he was much weaker than his enemy, he could afford to display no weakness at all.

It's not respect but fear that motivates a man; that's how empires are built and revolutions begin. It is the secret of great men.

She went up on tiptoes, just so she could look down on him.

Documentation is an affirmation of order.

Orchestration is the elimination of discretion, or choice, at the operating level of your business.

By identifying the money sources inside and outside of your business, and then applying these methods, you are better able to control the Flow in your business. But what are these sources? They include how you: Plan a project Buy materials Compensate your people Plan people's time Estimate a job Sell a job Manage a job Collect receivables

If The Entrepreneur lives in the future, The Manager lives in the past. Where The Entrepreneur craves control, The Manager craves order. Where The Entrepreneur thrives on change, The Manager compulsively clings to the status quo.

Marino Santos y sus hombres resumieron sus funciones en cinco elementos esenciales: 1. Controlar lo que se vende. 2. Controlar cómo se vende. 3. Controlar cómo se planifica. 4. Controlar cómo se construye y se instala. 5. Controlar cómo se controla. Cuando un contratista perdía de vista alguno de estos cinco puntos de control, como los llamaban Marino Santos y sus hombres, el trabajo no finalizaba como se había acordado. Eso no sería

But history tells us that monopolies that are truly benevolent and effective are rare.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they'll make of you? Maybe you'll help them to persuade people to buy things they don't need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

My will can control anything that's empty.

All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy, how to take pleasure in little things and last, but not least, how to dream

Now, for the first time ever, a story had escaped his control. It had taken on a life of its own, and all the imagination in the world would be insufficient to halt it. He felt numb.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

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