Quotes About Control

Feature creep is an innocent process. An engineer looking at a prototype of a remote control might think to herself, "Hey, there's some extra real estate here on the face of the control. And there's some extra capacity on the chip. Rather than let it go to waste, what if we give people the ability to toggle between the Julian and Gregorian calendars?

we cannot force ourselves to love—or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I couldn't control what was done to me. But my response to it was in my control.

Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?

You aren't some weak-willed wench. You can control your emotions. Remember all that you've survived. Behave like the queen you are. No one can take your dignity away from you. You lose it only by your own actions.

Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you. Instrument

niente vale quanto essere il padrone di te stesso.

Ah, how helpless we children are, how dependent on the whims of adults.

And if I wasn't able to bar anger, or her insidious cousin, irritation, From my heart, at least some of the time I bit back the sharp comments that I had prided myself on dispensing so freely all these years.

Because a trained mind is your strongest ally—and an untrained one your worst enemy.

A wise person allows herself to be used when it suits her purpose. She pretends weakness, then waits for the right moment to take control.

Why was it that our holy men who made a big deal of giving up so many things—comfort, fame, family—couldn't seem to give up their tempers?

People get addicted to love. Or just to having someone around. So many times Mr. Mehta gave me grief. I had to get his permission for every little thing: read a book, go to the cinema, even phone my parents. A lot of times he'd say no just because he could. Yet when he died, I wept and wept.

As for being pawns," Krishna was saying, "aren't we all pawns in the hands of Time, the greatest player of them all?

aren't we all pawns in the hands of Time, the greatest player of them all?

I knew I was intelligent—wasn't Dhai Ma always complaining about how overly smart I was? I knew enough to control passion. I visualized myself as a great queen, dispensing wisdom and love. Panchaali the Peacemaker, people would call me. The sorceress laughed.

How entangled love is with expectation, that poison vine! The stronger the expectation, the more our anger towards the beloved if he doesn't fulfil it—and the less our control over ourselves.

Kalau ada yang meraih tanganku melawan kehendakku, bagaimana mungkin itu menjadikan aku miliknya? Akulah yang memutuskan siapa yang memiliki aku." -Panchali

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

Thoughts and emotions are living beings so when you look at them and you do not react, you do not feed them. In this way they gradually lose their energy and just disintegrate.

In meditation practice, we neither hold the mind very tightly nor let it go completely. If we try to control the mind, then its energy will rebound back on us. If we let the mind go completely, then it will become very wild and chaotic. So we let the mind go, but at the same time there is some discipline involved.

When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.

Order it wrong and choice is oppressive; order it right and its liberating.

Being a leader is a study in managed frustration.