Quotes About Control

But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.

We knew that we'd set something on fire that I still can't control, quite honestly.

For this is man's nature, that where he is persuaded that there is the power to bring prosperity and adversity, there will he worship. George Gifford, A Discourse of the Subtill Practices of Devilles by Witches and Sorcerers (1587), sigs.B4v-C1

Where tradition tells us that people are best kept under control and denied freedom of expression and action, humanistic psychology argues for liberation, more open decision-making and a sharing of power and control.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

It's not about danger, it's about control. Keep people scared and stupid and you can make them do anything you want.

I've always been about less government.

Yoga is the mastery of the mind's fluctuations.

In fact, we often prefer predictable, obvious suffering to suffering that may or may not happen at any given time. And

If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.

What health is to the body, even that is honesty to the soul. Develop your spirit that it may gain strength to control the body and follow the natural laws of nutrition and hygiene.

It's easier to catch a horse than break him.

On a gentle horse, every man is a rider.

Fear the man who's feared of you.

We all seek stability," he quoted Langer as saying. "We want to hold things still, thinking that if we do, we can control them. But since everything is always changing, that doesn't work. Actually, it causes you to lose control." Yet if you understand reading as a mindful person, "uncertainty creates freedom to discover meaning. If there are meaningful choices, there is uncertainty

To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when learning takes place. Most fundamentally, teaching in this conception is creating those conditions in which most--if not all--of our students will realize their potential to learn. That sounds like hard work, and it is a little scary because we don't have complete control over who we are, but it is highly rewarding and obtainable.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

But Jacob knew that if God wanted Esau to have the inheritance, God would have made it happen. God is in control. We should all learn that lesson from Jacob.

Roman Occupation and Diaspora (64 BC-AD 1948) Rome established control of Israel in 64 BC. "33And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days." Daniel 11:33

It is interesting to note that if you string together the Hebrew names of Mishael, Hananiah, and Azariah, you form a sentence which can read "the one who is like God [Jesus the Messiah] will bring Yahweh's grace and help." If you string together the Babylonian names they mean absolutely nothing. To me this reveals God is in complete control even to the point of giving you your name!

Terror has to be random...that's how to really break people, when they don't know what rules to follow to keep them out of trouble.

The discretion of the watcher versus the privacy of the watched was just another arms race; this one, I could see, would run and run.

There was no need to call the meeting to order. Robots are orderly by default.