Quotes About Control

without control, my power, my strength, my feelings are a weakness.

With the careful steps of the drunk

She was, at sixteen years, eight months and twenty-one days, a product of her mother's meticulous and detailed agenda. That was about to change.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. —Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene III CHAPTER SIXTEEN Hands on Fallon's shoulders, Eddie drew back, his eyes damp as he studied her face.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. Or

I'm so angry it feels my blood's on fire. If I didn't bank it with calm, I might burn the place to the ground.

He cut you off from your family, your friends. He whittled your world right down, didn't he, and hammered at you to be grateful for it." He had, of course he had. She hadn't seen it happening because it was so gradual—until it was just her life.

People like to say they've given somebody a choice when what they're really saying is 'do this my way'.

Temper was a vicious dog that snapped at both their throats.

We can't escape fate, but we can do a great deal to carve our own mark in it – to turn it to our advantage or disadvantage.

She held herself rigid in his grasp, but he

Never. We lived by his moods, just like you said, and that's how he liked it.

It's praise and punish. It's how they get you to do what they want, how they train you.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. —Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene III

Without rules, chaos.' With chaos, life.

And I have a mighty and fatally accurate bitch slap

As pessoas que estão preparadas para usar a violência e o homicídio como instrumentos normais de política nunca podem sentir-se livres do medo de que outros possam recorrer aos mesmos instrumentos contra eles.

Ruling groups of every type...whose power is dwindling seldom vacate the field without a fight even if the chances of maintaining their power and rule may be nil. The weaker they are...the crasser, the more reckless and unrealistic...are the measures likely to be with which they seek to preserve their position.

This control of a machine on the basis of its actual performance rather than its expected performance is known as feedback, and involves sensory members which are actuated by motor members and perform the function of tell-tales or monitors—that is, of elements which indicate a performance. It is the function of these mechanisms to control the mechanical tendency toward disorganization; in other words, to produce a temporary and local reversal of the normal direction of entropy.

I repeat, feedback is a method of controlling a system by reinserting into it the results of its past performance. If these results are merely used as numerical data for the criticism of the system and its regulation, we have the simple feedback of the control engineers. If, however, the information which proceeds backward from the performance is able to change the general method and pattern of performance, we have a process which may well be called learning.

as efficient as communications' mechanisms become, they are still, as they have always been, subject to the overwhelming tendency for entropy to increase, for information to leak in transit, unless certain external agents are introduced to control it. I have already referred to an interesting view of language made by a cybernetically-minded philologist—that speech is a joint game by the talker and the listener against the forces of confusion.

It is precisely because He is omnipotent that for Him some things are impossible.

Citizens have very little choice in terms of influencing major decisions. The influence of social media, the funding of political parties and the lust to hold onto power weakens year by year the body of the democratic processes. Cynicism and disillusionment has become rampant in democratic countries. We live largely under the control of rich and powerful institutions and individuals.

Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there's a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.