Quotes About Control

you know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do...

Recklessness, spontaneity didn't really suit her, she couldn't carry if off, the results were never what she hoped for.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

He is in absolute control of all the forces arrayed against us, including the devil and all his demons.

And what if I can't behave myself? What if I don't fucking want to?" "You will," you laugh. "Because I'm not asking you, I'm fucking telling you.

if you cannot control your hunger and appetite, good luck managing your blood chemistry, metabolism, waistline, and, in the bigger picture, the prospect of crippling your brain.

The neurons in the gut are so innumerable that scientist are now calling the totality of them "the second brain"... In fact, recent research is revaling that our second brain may not be second at all. It can act independently from the main brain and control many functions without the brain's input.

The neurons in the gut are so innumerable that scientist are now calling the totality of them "the second brain"... In fact, recent research is revaling that our second brain may not be second at all. It can act independently from the main brain and control many functions without the brain's input or help.

epigenetic marks are the remote control not only to your health and longevity but also to how you pass your genes on to future generations. Our

Jack had an actor's control." Chuck Spalding

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

if superspreaders exist and can be identified during a disease outbreak, then control measures should be targeted at isolating those individuals, rather than applied more broadly and diffusely across an entire population.

We should appreciate that these recent outbreaks of new zoonotic diseases, as well as the recurrence and spread of old ones, are part of a larger pattern, and that humanity is responsible for generating that pattern. We should recognize that they reflect things that we're doing, not just things that are happening to us. We should understand that, although some of the human-caused factors may seem virtually inexorable, others are within our control.

The significance of the concept, Lloyd-Smith and his coauthors noted, is that if superspreaders exist and can be identified during a disease outbreak, then control measures should be targeted at isolating those individuals, rather than applied more broadly and diffusely across an entire population. Conversely, if you quarantine forty-nine infectious patients but miss one, and that one is a superspreader, your control efforts have failed and you face an epidemic.

Dovremmo sapere che le recenti epidemie di nuove zoonosi, oltre alla riproposizione e alla diffusione di altre già viste, fanno parte di un quadro generale più vasto, creato dal genere umano. Dovremmo renderci conto che sono conseguenze di nostre azioni, non accidenti che ci capitano tra capo e collo. Dovremmo capire che alcune situazioni da noi generate sembrano praticamente inevitabili, ma altre sono ancora controllabili.

We should recognize that they reflect things that we're doing, not just things that are happening to us. We should understand that, although some of the human-caused factors may seem virtually inexorable, others are within our control.

All of us react to our anxiety by "partializing" our world, by restricting our consciousness within narrow bounds, to areas that we can more or less control which provide us a sense of self-confidence.

The strength and control the Morrígan displays, as well as her ferocity and tenacity, and her ability to control events to ensure the desired result are all displayed repeatedly in the myths.

When Communist Party chiefs in Russia went fishing, scuba divers plunged underwater and put fish on the hooks. When they went hunting, specially bred elk, stag, and deer were made to saunter across the field in point-blank range. Everyone had a wonderful time. When the king of Afghanistan visited the Tajik resort of Tiger Gorge, he blew away the last Turan tiger in the country.

once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.

Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others.

We do not let go of control on our own. Usually, something has to happen that shows us incontrovertibly that we are not in control. From this condition of bankrupt ego, we finally let go. Great losses are thus necessary losses like the discarded sandbags that lighten a balloon so it can ascend higher.

When we look deeply into our fears, we see that, at base, every fear is a fear of not having control

My little China Girl You shouldn't mess with me. I'll ruin everything you are. I'll give you television. I'll give you eyes of blue. I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world.