Quotes About Control

Worry is a way to avoid admitting powerlessness over something, since worry feels like we're doing something. (Prayer also makes us feel like we're doing something, and even the most committed agnostic will admit that prayer is more productive than worry.)

Thus, it is the listener and not the speaker who decides how powerful a threat will be.

Most human predators, however, seek power, not food. To destroy or damage something is to take its power.

Don't think of persuasion as something someone does to us; persuasion is an internal process, not an external one. We persuade ourselves. A predator merely manipulates how things seem to us.

Worry is a way to avoid admitting powerlessness over something, since worry feels like we're doing something.

When you try to manage or reason with such a person, you find that he is not reacting to what you say but rather to what he expects you to say; he is reacting to his script.

No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you.

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning. Like rapport-building, charm and the deceptive smile, unsolicited niceness often has a discoverable motive.

Those men who are the most violent are not at all carried away by fury. In fact, their heart rates actually drop and they become physiologically calmer as they become more violent.

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.

Simply put, if you have some emotion within you that you don't know how to manage, you seal that emotion away and start trying to manage other people's versions of it.

Where in my life am I not taking full ownership? Another way to ask it is: What am I trying to disown? Or: What aspect of my life do I need to take full ownership of?

the less breath you feed your fear, the bigger your fear gets.

You don't share me. You own me.

If I stay. If I live. It's up to me. All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It's not up to the doctors. It's not up to the absentee angels. It's not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It's up to me.

Yeah, but some things you can't control, no matter how hard you try.

I don't discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can't be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

I am running the show. Everyone is waiting for me. I decide. I know this now.

Pero en serio, ¿cómo se hace para dominar los nervios? No se hace nada. Simplemente te aguantas y al final se pasan.

Porque de pronto, quiero escuchar sus huesos crujir. Quiero sentir la suavidad que ofrece su carne, escuchar su grito de asombro mientras el hueso de mi cadera se estrella contra ella. Quiero tirar su cabeza hacia atrás hasta que su cuello está expuesto. Quiero rasgar mis manos por su cabello hasta que su respiración sea entrecortada. Quiero hacerla llorar y lamer sus lágrimas. Y luego quiero llevar mi boca a la de ella, devorarla en vida....

Ponekad ti donosiš odluke u životu, a ponekad se odluke donesu same.

Samo mislim da su sprovodi vrlo sli?ni smrti. Možeš imati želje i planove, ali na kraju ipak nemaš kontrolu ni nad ?im.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. Does that make any sense?

Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.