Quotes About Control

Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.

What really needs to be learned from other successful leaders is their thought processes, their reasons, their methods of emotional control, their strategies, their abilities in dealing with other people, their subtle touches.

The permit any statement does negate the implicit deny, but watch where you put it in the ACL. If the permit any statement is at the top of any ACL, it doesn't matter how many deny statements follow it. They'll never be read.

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients and that is exactly where it should be.

When you make a man ashamed, you make him dangerous.

Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.

I figure if those things were in God's jurisdiction, he'd do something different about them. But they aren't. Those are in our jurisdiction.

Darlin'," he says, draining his coffee cup, "I can come up with solutions all day long and you can come up with reasons. Either you take control or all you've got left is reasons.

the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

Throughout his life, honors he had sought, honors he had not sought, were his, often at a younger age than anyone before him. Now, when he needed his magic the most, he was despised, abandoned, isolated, and utterly unable to control events around him, the first and only elected president in American history to be denied re-nomination by his own party. The last redoubt of Pierce supporters may have been within his own cabinet, the only one to remain intact over a four-year term.

He likens the physical being to a car, and the spiritual being to the driver. And possession is like carrying a passenger who shares the driving. And occasionally takes the car out for a spin without telling you. And maybe ties you up and stuffs you in the trunk.

It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control.

no matter where you are, only you have dominion over your mind, your beliefs, and your attitudes. So if you look at your situation and let go of excuses or blame, and you choose to believe that you can alter your position on your own, you'll deprive the system, the man, or the ism controlling you. First

But take care, or I may cut those tongues from thy throats for thee." Ouch, thought Billy. That'll hurt.

Mr. Ball was Fairview Middle School's vice principal. Its disciplinarian. The guy who liked nothing better than running detention hall. He'd strut up and down the rows of chairs, tapping a ruler behind his back, his eyes darting from one inmate to the next, just itching to whip out his pink pad and give one of the troublemakers another hour in the after-school punishment zone.

Humanity increased its degree of control over nature, but at the price of most people becoming subject to control and exploitation by privileged minority groups.

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.

Knowing the precise answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist. All we really want to know is that the helm is not unmanned. That the advocates of goodness and glory are still in control. That righteousness reigns. That perfection awaits. That the Atonement is real and available.

Sometimes, our fates are no longer ours to decide, and we can only grip our fists until our knuckles turn white and hang on for the rest of the ride.

No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.

When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.

Healthy individuals focus their energies where they can exert positive influence; they don't squander energy in fruitless lament over what they cannot control or change.