Quotes About Control

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you've already become part of the system. It's how it works.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

Too much emotion is like none at all.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.