Quotes About Control

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

Psychological despotism, whether enlightened or not, is gross misuse of psychology. The main purpose of psychology is to acquire insight into, and mastery of, oneself. Not for nothing were what we now call the behavioral sciences originally called the moral sciences and "Know thyself" their main precept. To use psychology to control, dominate, and manipulate others is self-destructive abuse of knowledge. It is also a particularly repugnant form of tyranny.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

control has to be by feedback from the work done. The work itself has to provide the information. If it has to be checked all the time, there is no control

That one can truly manage other people is by no means adequately proven. But one can always manage oneself.

The responsibility is always mine, but the decision lies with whoever is on the spot.

Reich chancellor!

mixing cajolery with lies, threats, and violence. The Reichstag fire provided them with apparently good reasons for pushing through an emergency decree

It is telling that common speech should link humor to such pugnacious acts as biting, slashing, cutting. Using the materials of its culture, humor offers splendid openings for the exercise — and the control — of aggression.

Hay demasiados dedos en los botones

speech has a role in what is now called executive control.

There are times when a nation desires a king or a dictator; times of confusion and uncertainty when they go down on their knees to one man and beg him to accept absolute power over them.

La pelea es como la guerra en pequeño, pero con la diferencia de que la guerra se desata entre personas ficticias, los estados, de tal manera que las personas físicas de carne y hueso solo son utilizadas como medios; en cambio, en la simple pelea, los que pelean son los dueños de su propia voluntad y no súbditos de la persona ficticia a la que obedecen cuando hay guerra.

I was fine till the finger, I say to myself, as I shift to reverse. You don't flip off Gilbert Grape. Let that be known.

There is hope in such a superstition; there is the illusion of control.

Whenever somebody turned his head, he shouted, Stop looking behind you!: There was a strict rule against head turns. When reversing, you were supposed to rely on mirrors only; the blind spot didn't exist, at least not in Coach Tang's eyes. Nobody ever wore a seat belt. I never saw a turn signal flash on the parking range at the Public Safety Driving School.

Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.

When you ask them what's wrong with the world, they never say there is not enough religion. They say there is not enough peace, prosperity, security, comfort, health care, or environmental responsibility. In other words, not enough human control over nature and human nature.

What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.

The heart spiritually is the will, not the feelings. It is under our control. Feelings are not.

all power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely").

The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome and the linkage between effect and cause is hidden from us.

He wrapped her around his hands and then yanked her inside out.

In my view the greatest evil in the world today is ever-increasing power and wealth in ever-fewer hands," says Visa founder Dee Hock.