Quotes About Control

The trouble shows up when they need to organize output—deciding what to do when and then controlling their own behavior to get there.

flexibility often have a weakness in emotional control as well. Their inflexibility often leads them to become angry or anxious when they are confronted with an event they weren't anticipating.

I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts.

People in pain are so vulnerable, such easy marks. We're desperate for reasons, for a sense of control, even if it means incriminating ourselves.

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. We can try to control the uncontrollable by looking for security and predictability, always hoping to be comfortable and safe. But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not knowing is part of the adventure, and it's also what makes us afraid.

You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace; you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just "gimme a break!" But the more you think that way, the more you try to get life to come out so that it will always suit you, the more your fear of other people and what's outside your room grows.

the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the emotion and get it going again.

The ego wants resolution, wants to control impermanence, wants something secure and certain to hold on to. It freezes what is actually fluid, it grasps at what is in motion, it tries to escape the beautiful truth of the fully alive nature of everything. As a result, we feel dissatisfied, haunted, threatened. We spend much of our time in a cage created by our own fear of discomfort.

We think we'd be delighted to have an unconditional relationship, but that's only as long as it's on our own terms.

warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. We can try to control the uncontrollable by looking for security and predictability, always hoping to be comfortable and safe. But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not-knowing is part of the adventure. It's also what makes us afraid.

We can't control what's going to happen but we can grow in awareness of what is happening.

We turn our emotions into frozen objects and invest them with truth, and as a result they have so much power over us.

Emotions cannot take off and escalate if the mind is steady.

We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that's death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self-contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn't have any fresh air. There's no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience.

Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Anger has been ready to be angry.

To get rid of anger you can change the situation or change how you think about the situation.

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]