Quotes About Control

Power perceived is power achieved.

Hegelian dialectic—a psychological tool used to manipulate the masses. In this case, you create a problem, wait for the reaction, and then offer the solution. What people historically fail to realize, though, is that those offering the solution are the same people who caused the problem in the first place. They also fail to realize that no matter what the solution is, it always ends up providing its creators with more power.

While the words are yet unspoken, you are master of them; when once they are spoken, they are master of you.

But don't get too hung up on the future. The future's out of your control. Enjoy what's happening right now. Do what is appropriate, what is right, in the present moment and let the future be the future.

Transcending emotions doesn't mean you have no feelings. You have them. But you recognize them for what they are and respond appropriately without letting them develop into what we call emotions, which are really just feelings that have been blown way out of proportion. A

Deferring to authority is nothing more than a cowardly shirking of personal responsibility. The more power you grant an authority figure the worse you can behave in his name. That's why people who take God as their ultimate authority are always capable of the worst humanity has to offer.

Buddhism doesn't ask us to deny our natural desires. But it does ask us to regulate how we respond to them.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.... Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

More surveillance cameras then followers lately.

Ones need for control is directly proportional for ones need for love.

You can't get mad when it rains, whereas you created the storm.

He'll just snap his fingers and turn us to dust.

bit you, Kendra, but I could never take control of you. Your mind is shielded. None of those enemies are of serious interest except for the Sphinx and Mr. Lich. Despite her delusions, Torina is really just a minor player. I'm curious about the person in the mask. Could it have been the prisoner from the Quiet Box?

I don't have nightmares," Muriel said. "I give them to other people.

Power is an illusion of perception.

A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can't do anything about it.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.

The law is not something holy, son. It's just a reflection of the ideals of those lucky enough to be in charge.

That's what trust is , Sazed thought. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

We must not cower in the dark because we're afraid of the spark within us. The answer is not to put out the spark, but to learn to control it.

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.