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Quotes About Control

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can get away with—for the more people government helps, the more people help the government. Whom the government supports, supports the government.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
And so the species is announcing, "We evolve by the principle of…well, evolution." But they never say what that principle IS, because they have confused the process and the principle. The species, on the other hand, which has become clear that evolution is a process—but a process over which the species has control—has not confused "process" with "principle," but consciously chooses a principle which it uses to guide and direct its process.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
For it is only when they can accept responsibility for all of it that they can achieve the power to change part of it. So long as you entertain the notion that there is something or someone else out there "doing it" to you, you disempower yourself to do anything about it. Only when you say "I did this" can you find the power to change it. It
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Love that is continually repressed becomes possessiveness, a very unnatural emotion.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Du har makt til å bestemme hvordan du skal føle deg, og hvordan du føler deg akkurat nå.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Absolute Power demands absolutely nothing.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I made that test my bitch.
~ Ned Vizzini
I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
~ Ned Vizzini
We all live within time. It rules us.
~ Ned Vizzini
There's great stuff in there. There's a disease called Ondine's Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. Can you imagine? You have to think "breathe, breathe" all the time, or you stop breathing. Most people who get it die.
~ Ned Vizzini
I was never big on rage Why? It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside. .
~ Ned Vizzini
Time is a person-made concept." "Really? Where'd you hear that?" "I made it up." "I don't know if that's true. We all live within time. It rules us." "I use my time how I want, so I rule it.
~ Ned Vizzini
You could also ask who's in charge. Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's all you have when you realize you are not entirely in control of outcomes. But without it, how else do we cope with the challenges of life?
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Silence held the bubble of the world in its grip.
~ Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchet
I want to learn martial arts, he said docilely, so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.
~ Neil Strauss
The answer: I was never actually pursuing sexual freedom. I was pursuing control, power, and self-worth. I was either acting like my mom or making someone into my mom. But rarely was I actually myself. Because, as I witnessed on ecstasy, the feeling that I'm not acceptable as I am is so fucking overwhelming that I'm terrified to let go and just be myself with anyone.
~ Neil Strauss
Logically, I know I'm being controlled by my emotions. But my logic is just 2 percent right now. I feel emotionally raw. [Mystery] clenched his bedsheet in his fist. I feel strange and empty, like after a shit.
~ Neil Strauss
There is no such thing as fear," Rasputin replied. "Emotions are just energy and motion that you trap inside your body because of a thought." Mini-Clark
~ Neil Strauss
In the sex-positive community, I found countless women who were sexually liberated and open, and required only one thing - that they be empowered and in control of the context, because that's how they felt safe enough to truly let go.
~ Neil Strauss
Rather than having actual freedom, it seemed that, like animals in a habitat in the zoo, we had only the illusion of freedom. As long as we didn't try to leave the cage, we'd never know we weren't actually free.
~ Neil Strauss
They'd leave open loops (or unfinished metaphors and stories) in my mind that they'd close a week later. They'd play music designed to elicit specific psychological reactions. They'd put me into trances so deep that hours went by in the blink of an eye.
~ Neil Strauss
It's a type of frame control," Tyler Durden replied. A frame is an NLP term: It is the perspective through which one sees the world. Whoever's frame—or subjective reality—is the strongest tends to dominate an interaction. "Style has all these really subtle ways of keeping control of the frame and getting people to qualify themselves to him. He makes sure that the focus is always on him. I'm writing a post about it." "That's
~ Neil Strauss
Sexual choice, however, is one of the only areas where women are indisputably in control. It's not until they've made a choice, and submitted to it, that the relationship is inverted—and the man is generally back in a position of power over her. Perhaps that is why women, to the frustration of men everywhere, are so cautious about saying yes. In
~ Neil Strauss