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Quotes About Control

I think it was Denoon who said that the closest you can come in life to experiencing free will is when you do things at random. There is no free will. Everything is still determined when you make random choices, but you stop noticing.
~ Norman Rush
The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The jailer is you. You're the only person who has the key to your cell. You're the only one who can open the door that leads to freedom.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Der Triumph der Prinzipien über Instinkte
~ Octavio Paz
I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best, and I am not inferior. There will be days when I must constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down. Those such as despair and sadness are simple to recognize but there are others which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can also destroy me. Against them, too, I must never relinquish control—
~ Og Mandino
only a habit can subdue another habit. So
~ Og Mandino
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Whoever has the sword will have the earth.
~ Oliver North
The war had deprived people of free will. They must do what they were told.
~ Olivia Manning
Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power
~ Oprah Winfrey
There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
~ Oprah Winfrey
you are the single biggest influence in your life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
you must remember that while the canvas of your life is painted with daily experiences, behaviors, reactions, and emotions, you're the one controlling the brush.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Our brain processes incoming sensory input from the bottom up, and if someone has a life with chaotic, uncontrollable, or extreme and prolonged stress, particularly early in life, they're more likely to act before thinking. Their cortex is not as active, and reactivity in the lower areas of the brain becomes more dominant.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands—you are the single biggest influence in your life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The thing you fear most has no power - it is what has the power.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.
~ Orhan Pamuk
When faced with Death, people lose control of their bodily functions—particularly the majority of those men who are known to be brave-hearted. For this reason, the corpse-strewn battlefields that you've depicted thousands of times reek not of blood, gunpowder and heated armor as is assumed, but of shit and rotting flesh.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Cumhuriyet kimlerin elinde görüyorsun. İsmet PaÅŸa bu adama deÄŸil bakanl?k, ta??s?n diye çantas?n? bile vermez!..
~ Orhan Pamuk
Butuh waktu untuk memupuk kesabaran. Pria tidak sabaran sepertimu tidak jatuh cinta dengan seorang wanita, tetapi ingin menguasainya.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Habit works powerfully for or against us. It is a good servant, but a tyrannical master. If
~ Orison Swett Marden