Quotes About Control

to Vaneigem and the Situationists who by shrewd use of collage and juxtaposition exposed both the poverty and richness of slogans, and the thinly veiled hypocrisy of a "spectacular" society which by not respecting words abuses people, and by insulting the intelligence creates a state of political cretinisation in which the many and various forms of authoritarian control dominate.

Men from the mountaintops will always come down to the molehill to conquer it. That will always be the vice of the conquerors.

Parents become more controlling when time is short, just as they do when they're in public. The combination of the two conditions is a killer.

The inevitable result of consistently employing power to control [your] kids when they are young is that [you] never learn how to influence." The more you rely on punishment, therefore, "the less real influence you'll have on their lives.

As Thomas Gordon pointed out, 'The inevitable result of consistently employing power to control [your] kids when they are young is that [you] never learn how to influence.' The more you rely on punishment, therefore, 'the less real influence you'll have on their lives.

control is an unavoidable feature of human relationships; all that actually varies is the subtlety of the system of reinforcement.

Some who support more coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled—those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which then is used to justify the use of control.

Control breeds the need for more control, which then is used to justify the use of control.

The most significant factor in an individual's ability to remain in good health may be a sense of control over the events of life," one psychologist has remarked.

There is a time to admire the grace and persuasive power of an influential idea, and there is a time to fear its hold over us. The time to worry is when the idea is so widely shared that we no longer even notice it, when it is so deeply rooted that it feels to us like plain common sense. At the point when objections are not answered anymore because they are no longer even raised, we are not in control: we do not have the idea; it has us.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

Mer profonde, heureusement il t'est facile d'éteindre une étincelle. ( RAZETTA )

Adversity presents itself in many forms.… If a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them. Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

It is essential to resist our natural tendencies to allow emotions to control actions.

anger in a leader rarely produces good results.

You can more easily partner with God instead of making the situation worse by reacting emotionally.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.

Folks in Washington have it all figured out - they are going to make your choices and run your life.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.