Quotes About Control

We think we control our environment but in fact it controls us.

If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.

Every decision in the world is made by the person who has the power to make the decision. Make peace with that.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

I've created a monster" "No you just released one.

Nel codice comune le storie passionali si agitano in acque tempestose, e se la tempesta governa, gli animi in sua balia sembrano meno responsabili. Invece la sua anima pareva ferma in una cala tranquilla.

Quiero domar el dolor como si fuera un animal salvaje.

Tirar a la basura es un gesto de poder. El poder prescindir de bienes que otros necesitarían; el poder de saber que otros se ocuparían de desaparecerlo. El poder de poseer es placentero; nunca más que el poder de deshacerse: el poder de no necesitar la posesión. El poder verdadero es desdeñarlo.

Tak jak powtarzaj?cy si? g?ód w Korei Pó?nocnej powinien by? klasycznym przyk?adem tego, do czego zdolna jest dyktatura, kiedy chodzi jej wy??cznie o utrzymanie si? przy w?adzy, tak g?ód w Nigrze w 2005 roku móg?by pokazywa?, do czego zdolny jest rynek, kiedy nic nie kr?puje jego dzia?a?.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Don't blame the horse when you've got the reins.

Play teaches people to be capable of living with others without control; it connects the experiences of vulnerability and surprise to curiosity and wonder, rather than to crippling anxiety. How

You can tell your body to do whatever you want, Miss Idina," he'd told her, his eyes closed and his legs crossed beneath him while a young Idina fidgeted in her attempt at the same position. "When you tell your mind to do what you say, and it finally obeys, this is mastery. Over anything and everything you wish.

Sometimes, good people got on the wrong side of an argument. Sometimes, bad people got on the right side. The truth wasn't anyone's to control.

Control is a way to get started at something new but eventually it always fails. True success comes where control ends and we step out into thin air. Correk was explaining to you the same thing I am right now. If you don't gain an understanding of how to trust the source of energy from within you, from within the ground you stand on then you will try to control it, limit it.

I think the general opinion is that it's one thing to be strong and go after something and fight to help others when you're in control. Anyone can make themselves look good if they work hard enough at it. But it's the moments that take all that control away completely when you find out who a person is. How they react to not having a say in the matter.

What gave these krauts a right to say who should be born and who shouldn't, and who could live and be let alone, and who would get caught and killed?

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Five Human Truths." We need to be understood, feel special, feel as though we belong, feel that we're in control, and know that we have the chance to reach our potential

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

It may be that we are puppets—puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. —Stanley Milgram

Sociopaths are masterful at using other people's seemingly innocuous personal information against them.

sociopathic opponent is utterly stuck in his conviction that winning by dominating is all-important. He is helpless to change his objective. If you are able to change yours, you will have a powerful advantage.

Serene silence about your intentions can be incredibly powerful when you are speaking with someone who is trying to control you.