Quotes About Control

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.

Whats the difference between a king and his horse?I dont mean some kiddy shit like one has 4 legs and the other has 2, or ones a person and ones an animal. If their form, ability, and power is exactly the same, then why is it one becomes the king and controls the battle and the other one becomes the horse and carries the king? There's only one answer...INSTINCT!!!

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires

You can't own something unless you can swallow it

T]he majority possesses an empire so absolute and so irresistible that one must in a way renounce one's rights as a citizen and so to speak one's quality as a man when one wants to deviate from the path it has traced.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

The authority that we can't recognize as authority is always more powerful than the openly authoritative authority.

It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it.

Hungry people mindlessly follow orders. You feed them enough and right away they demand self-government.

Its President was Warren Hastings, who ruled with a rod of iron in one hand and a blank cheque from London in the other.[

I was honestly very nervous of Constance Wheatcroft. And I wasn't the only one. Her entire family was afraid of her. Dogs were afraid of her. Bindweed in the hedge would wither as she passed; birds would forget their nesting instincts and fly back to north Africa at the sound of her hideous cries.

David foster Wallace: '...the revelatory power of freakishly thorough noticing, of corralling and controlling detail.[...] he trains you to study the world through the lens of his prose.' NYTimes, 7 Feb 2016

This work led cognitive therapists such as Aaron Beck, David D. Burns, and Albert Ellis to build treatment around the idea that our thoughts shape our emotions, not the other way around. By changing our thinking, we can alleviate depression or simply have greater control over our behavior.

The remarkable writings of Oliver Sacks, for instance, show that the brain continually works to create and maintain the feeling of an "I" that is in control, even if there is in fact no part of the brain that can be identified as the locus of "self feeling.

The cognitive psychology revolution has had a dramatic impact on mental health, and two of its major names are David D. Burns and Albert Ellis. Their mantra that thoughts create feelings, not the other way around, has helped many people to get back in control of their lives because it applies logic and reason to the murky pool of emotions.

When any of these forces gains the upper hand, it is usually because of deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Yet

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

people who hated cats were often control freaks who felt the world owed them a living.

Cats hate doors for the opportun ities doors deny them to do exactly what they please, but they love them in equal measure, due to the opportunities they present to make humans their snivelling slaves.