Quotes About Control

With his immaculately coiffured blond locks and his impeccable cut-glass accent, he looks, and sounds, like a dab hand. 'People are as nice as you make them,' he enunciates. 'Which gives you a heck of a lot of power over them, of course.

I've always maintained that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do so at the stock exchange," he enthused. "Without doubt, there's a greater proportion of psychopathic big hitters in the corporate world than there is in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where your position and status afford you power and control over others, and the chance of material gain.

Without doubt, there's a greater proportion of psychopathic big-hitters in the corporate world than there are in the general population. You'll find them in any organisation where your position and status afford you power and control over others, and the chance of material gain.

Nu ai voie s? la?i frica s? te domine, dac? ceva nu merge cum trebuie. Nu e loc de panic? în toiul luptei.

Often, problems arise and dangers accrue not too fast for us to notice, but too slow. So we need to draw lines to prevent things from going too far.

Stanley Milgram's electric shocks

Cea mai buna cale de a manipula oamenii este sa le spui ce vor sa auda.

In 1651, in Leviathan, it was Thomas Hobbes who first advanced the contention that without top-down state controls we'd turn, rather effortlessly, into a bunch of brutish savages. And there's more than a grain of truth in such a notion. But Pinker argues from a more bottom-up perspective, and while certainly not denying the importance of legal restraints, also insinuates a gradual process of cultural and psychological maturation.

So when I'm talking about likability, I'm not saying the goal is to be liked. That's external. You can't control whether people like you, and you sure as hell don't want to worry about it. I'm saying be likable. That's internal. It's something unconditional, radiating outward from within. One is weak, while the other is powerful.

The best enemies are fabricated enemies for two reasons: one, we have nothing to worry about, and two, the populace falls in line.

A man like Zod is effective primarily in crisis situations. And so in order to hold on to his power, he has to create or maintain the state of emergency.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

Massive tracking and total surveillance is here to stay.

In the Network Era—that age we have just entered—dense communication is creating artificial worlds ripe for emergent coevolution, spontaneous self-organization, and win-win cooperation. In this Era, openness wins, central control is lost, and stability is a state of perpetual almost-falling ensured by constant error.

Real dystopias are more like the old Soviet Union rather than Mad Max: They are stiflingly bureaucratic rather than lawless.

Do you own your own thoughts, or are you merely accessing them?

Before the internet there was simply no way to coordinate a million people in real time or to get a hundred thousand workers collaborating on one project for a week. Now we can, so we are quickly exploring all the ways in which we can combine control and the crowd in innumerable permutations.

Perhaps the most useful lesson of coevolution for "wannabe" gods is that in coevolutionary worlds control and secrecy are counterproductive.

All this is happening for a reason." Yeah, she thought, to annoy me.

Powerful kids don't just happen; they're created. Give in and you won't win. Force a blowout, then remain calm.

The point is, parent, you don't have to react to everything.

For those of you who have childhood memories with pain or loss in them, it probably doesn't take much to recall those grievances and grudges. But as we look at the power of confronting the truth about your past, I hope that you (...) can avoid the waste before the days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and months turn into years. You can take control. You can avoid those wasted years. And it's never too late to start.

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