Quotes About Control

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Saying of the Prophet Anger You ask for a piece of advice. I tell you : 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

The thief who has not been caught is a king.

Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

SOVEREIGNTY Sovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)

None should say: 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan esencialmente gracias a tu codicia.

El conocimiento es algo que tú puedes utilizar. La creencia es algo que te utiliza a ti.

The Sufi way of thinking is particularly appropriate in a world of mass communication, when every effort is directed towards making people believe that they want or need certain things; that they should believe certain things; that they should as a consequence do certain things that their manipulators want them to do.

Han fijado nuestra nutrición y dispuesto la duración de nuestras vidas. Más que esto,y más allá de esto,los esfuerzos no serán productivos.

La vida: algunas veces, el hombre sobre la montura; algunas veces, la montura sobre el hombre.

Nadie debería decir: "Yo puedo confiar" o "Yo no puedo confiar" hasta que sea dueño de la opción de confiar o no confiar.

Soberanía: La soberanía es un viento de cambio. Hariri

Dicho del Profeta Cólera Me pides un consejo. Yo te digo: no te enfurezcas. Fuerte es aquél que puede contener la cólera.

Many people imagine that any higher human development, if it exists at all, must follow a pattern whose form (or at least whose beginning) is instantly perceptible to them as such. In making this assumption these people expose themselves to control by any systems which can take advantage of this expectation. And systems do take advantage of this

Was it that bureaucracy, taken to extremes, became oppression? Or that oppression needed the fiction of legality, a craving for the respectability that it could never have?

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Jung lo dice con toda claridad: la mente puede hacer que las cosas sucedan.

The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free.

In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.

Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to.

Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion.