Quotes About Control

Hasta ahora, ha determinado toda su vida por las elecciones y decisiones que ha hecho o dejado de hacer. Si hay algo en su vida que no le guste, usted es el responsable. Si hay algo de lo que no está contento, a usted le toca dar los pasos necesarios para cambiarlo y mejorarlo de forma que sea más de su gusto.

La delegación tiene una variedad de beneficios y ventajas. La delegación te permite ampliar tu ámbito de trabajo desde lo que puedes hacer a lo que puedes controlar o manejar. Eso significa que puedes concentrarte en hacer las pocas cosas durante tu jornada de trabajo que únicamente tú puedes hacer por tu empresa.

The first hour is the rudder of the day.

People eat more when you give them a bigger container. Period.

Just as we can't tell how much we've eaten simply by relying on internal cues, we can't really tell how much we've gained or lost without some external benchmark.

Are you creating your thoughts? Or, are your thoughts creating you?

more importantly, they learn that they are the one in control of their interior experience and how they feel. They learn that discouragement is a feeling caused by a thought—not an inevitable result of working towards something they want. I

Trying to control other people and what they think is impossible. We can barely control what we think, how do we expect to control what others think? And

She became an obsessive runner and an anorexic. For nine years she barely ate. "When you have an inability to connect with people, and you feel shameful about yourself, the only power you have is over your own body. I couldn't speak up for myself, so this was the only way I could actually exert any influence over myself.

We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.

Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives...

We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.

Herr Oberst, if you were one of my nuns, I should order you under holy obedience to hurt my feelings. As you are not a nun, however, I can only request you to hurt them.

The greatest freedom comes from the greatest strictness.'(Paul Valéry)

The more you know, the more you can control your destiny.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting

Democracy doesn't work, Christianity doesn't work, nor Atheism, Nothing works but the gun and the man on top.

Daniel Kahneman has argued that this tendency to overconfidence is particularly strong among investors. More than most other groups, investors tend to exaggerate their own skill and deny the role of chance. They overestimate their own knowledge, underestimate the risks involved, and exaggerate their ability to control events.

I was sole keeper and mistress of the impossible. I possessed the keys to pain.

Around thrones the thunder rolls.

Powerful men who believe their wealth is threatened generally are dangerous.

For Alice, of course, the measure of how you held up in the face of a life-threatening illness was not how much you changed but how much you stayed the same, in control of your own identity.

THE ONE-MINUTE BREATH A variation of the Retained Breath is the One-Minute Breath, in which you take only one breath during one minute. Most people will find this difficult at first, and should work up to it by taking three breaths per minute, and then three breaths over two minutes. As a rule, people usually take about twelve to fourteen breaths per minute.

This is not the true meaning of jihad," he spoke into the starless dark. "Jihad is the holy war we have within ourselves. That is the meaning below the surface. Our internal struggle for purity," he said with emphasis, pressing his forefinger into his chest. "It is the war of ascendance over our basal instincts. It has absolutely nothing to do with others. The only thing we can have control over is ourselves.