Quotes About Control

When a person is able to organize his or her consciousness so as to experience flow as often as possible, the quality of life is inevitably going to improve, because, as in the case of Rico and Pam, even the usually boring routines of work become purposeful and enjoyable. In flow we are in control of our psychic energy, and everything we do adds order to consciousness.

It is a circuitous path that begins with achieving control over the contents of our consciousness.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them," said Epictetus a long time ago. And the great emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: "If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

When the job presents clear goals, unambiguous feedback, a sense of control, challenges that match the worker's skills, and few distractions, the feelings it provides are not that different from what one experiences in a sport or an artistic performance.

Chance and necessity are sole rulers of beings who are incapable of reflection.

By learning to concentrate, a person acquires control over psychic energy, the basic fuel upon which all thinking depends.

Sometimes fields that are not competent in the domain take control over it.

This does not mean that creative persons are hyperactive, always "on," constantly churning away. In fact, they often take rests and sleep a lot. The important thing is that the energy is under their own control—it is not controlled by the calendar, the clock, an external schedule. When necessary they can focus it like a laser beam; when it is not, they immediately start recharging their batteries.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

Kdo si postaví d?m, je jeho otrokem. Kdo obdÄ›lává p?du, je jejím otrokem.

Martin Luther supposedly said, "You might not be able to stop the birds from landing on your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.

Drama-free" doesn't mean getting rid of the drama or the people who create it. It means being free from its debilitating effects in our lives. This book is about getting free—not letting our lives and attitudes be controlled by the choices of others.

With expectation, we're waiting for something specific that we want to happen, and we'll be disappointed if it doesn't. With expectancy, we release our own agenda in a person's life, allowing changes to happen that we can't control.

eventually opening your own cannery. You could control the product; you could control the market. You could control all the processing and distribution. And then, of course, you'd need to leave this little fishing village and move to Mexico City. Then you'd move to LA and eventually New York City, where you would run an expanding enterprise." The Mexican fisherman said, "But, Señor, how long will this take?

People can't drive you crazy if you don't give them the keys.

It's inappropriate to have debilitating anger over events we can't control.

The way I see it, all governments are just a different flavour of bastard.

Once a person gets outside, he gets all these ideas of being free, and that plays merry hell for a government." He nodded firmly. "Keep a man inside behind steel walls and thick windows, tell him that what you do, it's for his own protection. Make him think he relies on you, let him think the prison is his home, and he'll thank you for it.

Real Estate Investors invest in real estate primarily because they believe it is a real investment that they can control. You can see it, visit it, touch it, smell it, and show it off to friends and family. You can't do that with stock. You might be able to do it with gold and silver.

Always a "Property Manager," NEVER a "Landlord

NEVER Knock on Doors to Collect Rent NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! This means you are not in control of your business.

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you think you do. But you know what you're really doing? When you flee through the night, or crawl into your little bolt-hole? You know what's really guiding you? Controlling you? Pushing you on? Genre conventions .

Rowing Slow is about picking the times that you need to go fast, to have the ability to go fast when you need it and slow when it is called for. And going slow is called for.