Quotes About Control

Hold on too tightly and the kids rebel; hold on too loosely and all things go to hell.

I'm the Princess BellaDonna, baby. The head bee-yotch in charge. And from now on, you will do Whatever. I. Say.

En employant des moyens extrêmes, il est effectivement possible de détruire le contrat social jusqu'à la base, et d'obtenir de la part des hommes des réactions purement animales.

certidumbres ideológicas siempre han sabido dominar las contingencias individuales.

What I am emphasizing is that we are trying to solve our basic human problems through a psychological framework, when actually the problem is neurological. The body is involved. Take desire. As long as there is a living body, there will be desire. It is natural. Thought has interfered and trying to suppress, control, and moralize about desire, to the detriment of mankind. We are trying to solve the 'problem' of desire through thought. It is thinking that has created the problem.

I am like a puppet sitting here. It's not just I; all of us are puppets. Nature is pulling the strings, but we believe we are acting. If you function that way (as puppets), then the problems are simple. But we have superimposed on that (the idea of) a "person" who is pulling those strings.

Belief is like any other habit, the more you try to control and suppress it, the stronger it becomes.

Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Ich fühlte mich in Margas Gegenwart nicht mehr wohl, als müsste ich stets vor etwas auf der Hut sein, ein dumpfer, verschwommener Argwohn, ich könnte ihr Missfallen erregen. Kontrolliert, beinah zensiert, fühlte ich mich.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them?

The hardest part of skating is the ice.

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.

I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time!

Be God or let God.

Life would be much easier if I had the source code.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.

Don't touch the red button!

Let it down slowly.

Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.