Quotes About Control

We are what we feel and perceive. If we are angry, we are the anger.

We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us.

We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us, shape us, and destroy us.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

criminals more readily than any other State would do, till the time comes

Mr. Prendick, do as I instructed, or I will have the significant pleasure of shooting you.

he had created a monster.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

Political correctness is the means by which we try to control others; decency is the means by which we try to control ourselves.

Marriage was not only impossible but unnecessary. He had only to say "Come" and she must obey; it was her destiny.

Men are still led by instinct before they are regulated by knowledge

But, oh, gentlemen, the ways of nature, or of God, and the Providence that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may! It is man who proposes, but God—God—who disposes!

If you can't be really good at anything, then the only way to be able to prove you are superior is to make someone else inferior. It is this rampaging need in humanity which has, since pre-history, driven a man to stand on the neck of his neighbor, a nation to enslave another, a race to tread on a race. But it is also what men have always done to women.

Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

even if you turn off the TV, the TV in your mind continues to run. So you have to also stop the TV in your head.

Never in all history has man had to face such terrible dangers. He is at the point where he is no longer sure of being able to control the situation. The economic, political, and military systems he has established have turned against him and imposed themselves upon him.

Mindfulness is the energy that allows us to recognize our habit energy and prevent it from dominating us.

A smile makes you a master of yourself.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.

Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way.

I don't like to leave anything in the hands of the judges.

When you're on set, you're like, 'Everyone's judging me because I'm the director, and everyone thinks I'm doing this because I just love myself and I want to do everything.' Part of it's true: I do want to do everything, and I do kind of love myself.