Quotes About Control

The fastest way to tumble out of the Zone is to allow emotions to drive your actions.

Control your thoughts, and you control your emotions. Control your emotions, and you control your actions. Control your actions, and you control the outcome.

Power is the mistress that stalks us all.

when you conquer worry, you can "relax for easy power.

Maxwell Maltz wrote, "It is conscious thinking which is the 'control knob' of your unconscious machine."31

An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

They've made the mistake of thinking that power over others and leadership are the same thing.

Here in the realm of books she's self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn't have anywhere else.

I guarantee there is nothing more depressing than knowing morons have complete power over you.

Abba Macarius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

Abba Marcius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

Lazlo doesn't believe in seatbelts. He says they show a serious lack of faith in a driver.

Washington was a small town run by people who believed that they lived in the center of the universe.

They might not love Big Brother, but they knew he was part of the family now.

Under Cheney's direction, the United States moved to restore the powers of secret intelligence that had flourished for fifty-five years under J. Edgar Hoover. In public speeches, the president, the vice president, and the attorney general renewed the spirit of the Red raids. In top secret orders, they revived the techniques of surveillance that the FBI had used in the war on communism. The

their installations. Once a wiretap was approved, Hoover considered it approved forever. Hoover had asserted that the FBI was free to install bugs at will, without informing a higher authority. He told Katzenbach that this power had been granted him in perpetuity by Franklin Delano Roosevelt a quarter of a century ago.

The CIA falsely claimed credit for the arrest and wrested back control of the interrogation. Its officers blasted the prisoner with noise, froze him with cold, and buried him in a mock coffin. Soufan and Gaudin protested. The CIA officers told them the techniques had been approved at the highest levels of the American government. Soufan

Every time you find your attention captured by a poster, your awareness, and perhaps something more, has, if only for a moment, been appropriated without your consent.

the lasting power of attentional habits is never to be underestimated

like late Rome, the Bell system now existed as an eastern and a western empire—Verizon and AT&T (whose

we see that the enlightened monopolist can occasionally prove a delusional paranoid.

Without exception, the brave new technologies of the twentieth century—free use of which was originally encouraged, for the sake of further invention and individual expression—eventually evolved into privately controlled industrial behemoths, the "old media" giants of the twenty-first, through which the flow and nature of content would be strictly controlled for reasons of commerce.

granted him a broad and unspecified authority. In his sunny way, Creel would take that authority and run with it, going to extremes that must be described as alarming. In 1917, the United States remained intensely divided over