Quotes About Control

When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful.

She does not care what you think. She only cares what you think as far it helps her get what she wants from you

Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

You don't. You don't accept it. You don't think about it. You just leave it out there somewhere, like a part of town you never visit. You put the anger, the rage, the fury in another part of town, and you never visit it.

when poets go back by way of memory and imagination to past traumas to engage or re-engage them, then those poets are taking control—are shaping and ordering and asserting power over the hurtful events. In lyric poems, they're both telling the story from their point of view and also shaping the experience into an order (the poem) that shows they have power over what (in the past) overpowered them.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

Tobacco is the enemy, disguised as a friend, and if you are to win the war you must get to know your enemy.

Co-dependency essentially revolves around the sentence: "I am not enough." A co-dependent person will always need another person to validate their worth, their feelings, their ideas and even their existence. This either shows itself as a need to manipulate and control surroundings; or as a need to bend over backwards to make other people feel good, the reason being that "I can't feel good if you don't feel good.

Traffic will not yield to our will, neither will global finances, the environment, political rhetoric, nor people in general. There is no way to solve the problem of stress through blaming environmental factors.

Some events in life are so overwhelming that people will experience stress no matter how good they are at controlling their minds in normal circumstances.

A hatalom a félelem legmagasabb rend? megnyilvánulása, amelyet az ember önmaga számára alkot meg, éppen azon er?feszítései révén, melyeket azért tesz, hogy megszabaduljon t?lük.

La natura rifiutandosi clamorosamente di servire all'uomo, avendo altri fini, l'uomo sempre più sarà asservito all'uomo.

Elle ferma les yeux quelques secondes, lutta pour faire refluer son désir naissant. Elle savait que les sentiments étaient souvent plus destructeurs et dangereux qu'une balle d'un 9 mm ou que la lame tranchante d'un sabre.