Quotes About Control

Iran's goal is to gain control of the Two Holy Mosques.

The ball is the most important thing on the field.

The most important thing for me is to have as much control over what's going on in front of me as I possibly can, so because of that, I don't play to a click track, and I don't have anything on the grid. Everything is triggered by me. Everything is played by me. Everything is within my control.

When you see him speak, it's hard to believe that such a gormless geek as Mark Zuckerberg may be the most powerful person in the free world.

The most powerful thing billionaires have isn't their voice. It's earth-shattering, continent-moving, war-starting amounts of money.

Fear, to me, is the most powerful feeling there is - fear.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

Motherhood has changed me completely; you are not in control of yourself.

I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.

I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'

You can rule by fear but it's not a great motivation for people.

In short, money with strings is worth less than money without strings—sometimes a lot less.

De forma paradójica, es precisamente donde nadie está controlado que toda la economía automáticamente termina siendo coordinada por la fluctuación de precios, mientras que en las economías deliberadamente planificadas este mismo nivel de coordinación una y otra vez ha resultado difícil o imposible de alcanzar.

Entre 1978 y 1995, China tuvo una espectacular tasa de crecimiento del 9 por ciento anual como consecuencia de la liberación de los precios que siguió a la muerte de Mao en 1976. Esto contrasta con los graves problemas económicos que tenía China a causa de las medidas de fuerte control gubernamental promovidas por ese líder comunista.

attained democracy, as brutal dictatorships took over, led to the cynical phrase: One man, one vote-one time.

In the later era, people living in safety purchased with other people's lives could loftily dismiss bridges as "meaningless," when in warfare the control of bridges can be a matter of life and death for armies and for the fate of whole nations.

In Virginia, the printing press was deliberately restricted by the powers that be, to keep reading matter from the masses, while the aristocracy often had impressive libraries in their homes.396

Between 1978 and 1995, China had a spectacular growth rate of 9 percent per annum as a result of the price liberalization that followed Mao's death in 1976. This is in contrast to the serious economic problems that China had due to the strong government control measures promoted by that communist leader.

Bajo un sistema de precios, la gente se raciona a sí misma. El racionamiento de recursos a través de los precios limita la cantidad que cada individuo puede tomar de la producción de otros a la productividad que cada individuo ha creado por sí mismo para otros, y que por lo tanto se ha ganado en calidad de ingreso. Los controles de precios, subvenciones y otros sustitutos a la asignación de precios, reducen los incentivos para el autorracionamiento.

Cuanto más grande sea la diferencia entre los precios del mercado libre y los precios decretados a través de leyes de control de precios, más graves serán las consecuencias del control de precios.

Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--that the state wants men to be weak and timid, not strong and proud.

It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--whether parental, priestly, political, or psychiatric--must be careful how and where they assert themselves; for while it is true that the more they assert themselves the more they govern, it is also true that the more they assert themselves the more opportunities they offer for being successfully denied.