Quotes About Control

Il punto più intenso delle vite, quello in cui si concentra la loro energia, è proprio là dove si scontrano con il potere, si dibattono con esso, tentano di utilizzare le sue forze o di sfuggire alle sue trappole.

por el poder de hacer vivir o de arrojar a la muerte.

Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.

Là où il y a pouvoir, il y a résistance.

The guillotine takes life almost without touching the body, just as prison deprives of liberty or a fine reduces wealth.

It's when people become complacent that this kind of evil sneaks in through the back door, and before long, what you were afraid to look at has now become something so awful you couldn't control it if you wanted to.

To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.

Shut your mouth, Florus, or the ghosts will get in. The disembodied are always looking to hitch a ride in the right vessel. - Aunt Polly

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.

I concluded that, unhappily, I'd been born into a world dominated by a rampaging monster called 'law' that was both all-powerful and all-stupid

The right hemisphere controls sensory attention and body image; the left hemisphere controls skilled movements and some aspects of language.

If we can somehow control the probability of certain improbable events, then anything, including faster-than-light travel, and even time travel, is possible. Reaching the distant stars in seconds is highly unlikely, but when one can control quantum probabilities at will, then even the impossible may become commonplace.

Otro problema surge cuando interviene el gobierno. John Perry Barlow, poeta y letrista de Grateful Dead, afirma: «Pedirle al gobierno que proteja nuestra privacidad es como pedirle a un voyeur que nos instale unas persianas

Sorprendentemente, se puede introducir directamente en una neurona, con precisión quirúrgica, un gen sensible a la luz que hace que la célula se dispare. A continuación, se enciende el haz de luz y la neurona se activa. Y, lo que es más importante, esto permite a los científicos excitar esos recorridos, de manera que pueden activar y desactivar determinados comportamientos con pulsar un interruptor.

are skilled in the techniques necessary to neutralize any rogue robot.

La base lunar está controlada en gran medida por trabajadores humanos, que están seguros y confortablemente instalados dentro de sus cápsulas en la Tierra

En algún momento debemos esperar que las máquinas tomen el control. ALAN TURING

God, but it was fun! It was the way I liked it. No arguing, no talking to the stupid peasants. I just walked into that room with a tommy gun and shot their guts out. They never thought that there were people like me in this country. They figured us all to be soft as horse manure and just as stupid.

All right, you conniving little punks, I'll play ball, but I'm going to make up a lot of rules you never heard of. You think I'm cornered and it'll be a soft touch. Well, you won't be playing with a guy who's a hero. You'll be up against a guy with a mind gone rotten and a lust for killing! That's the way I was and that's the way I like it!

Él todavía estaba en condiciones de decidir, pero como solamente tenía 11 años, era su padre quien decidía por él. ¿Por qué, Señor, por qué el mundo se organizaba tan rematadamente mal?

Humans are storytellers. It is our nature to make up stories, to interpret everything we perceive. Without awareness, we give our personal power to the story and the story writes itself. With awareness, we recover the control of our story. We see we are the authors and if we don't like our story, we change it.

The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn't love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.

The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses, and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable. They have complete control over their own emotions and therefore over their own behavior.

The inner Judge uses what is in our Book of Law to judge everything we do and don't do, everything we think and don't think, and everything we feel and don't feel. Everything lives under the tyranny of this Judge.