Quotes About Control

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

I am not a dictator, I have only simplified democracy.

The so-called dictatorship of the proletariat is really the dictatorship over the proletariat by the party and even by individual persons.

We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.

History indicates that wolf control is sometimes poor biology, often poor economics, and almost always poor public relations.

I found bossing other people about such a delightful novelty that I had to remind myself of Lord Acton's famous axiom about its tendency to corrupt.

We can't always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.

Never make a decision while in the state of anger.

can't hold my tongue.

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.