Quotes About Control

Only an unimaginative man would think that mechanistic, command-and-control organizations could ever produce an equitable, enduring, free society. Only a thoughtless man would create them. Only an arrogant man would run them. Only a cruel man would perpetuate them.

Life is not about control. It's not about getting. It's not about having. It's not about knowing. It's not even about being. Life is eternal, perpetual becoming, or it is nothing. Becoming is not a thing to be known, commanded, or controlled. It is a magnificent, mysterious odyssey to be experienced.

The common embryological origin of the endothelium and blood cells perhaps explains why many cytokines that control hematopoiesis are released by the vascular endothelium.

The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

There can be no sense of security in your existence when it depends upon outside factors, for the unpredictable changes of reality can never be controlled.

Use memories. Do not let memories use you.

Behind the cliché that you create your own reality there is a shadow: if you don't create your own reality, it will be created for you.

unpredictability, repetition, and lack of control are the aggravating factors in stress.

Volvemos a lo mismo una y otra vez: usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas. Este es un tema muy importante al que debemos prestar atención.

Resulta trágicamente irónico que el mismo cerebro que es capaz de conquistar el miedo pueda también someternos a los miedos que atormentan nuestras vidas.

Being the monarch of fear, you've forgotten how to be afraid yourself.

Si eres demasiado impulsivo, la ira, el miedo y el deseo escaparán a tu control. Y eso conduce a las acciones apresuradas y al arrepentimiento posterior. Si controlas demasiado tus impulsos, tu vida se convierte en una existencia fría y reprimida. Y eso conduce a la falta de vínculos con los demás y con tus propios instintos básicos.

The solution is to use the body's dual control as a tool of healing. In the most basic terms, there are two kinds of healing going on in every person right now. Automatic healing, which everyone inherited in their genes through millions of years of evolution. Conscious healing, which covers every opportunity to assist and improve automatic healing.

Kings were no better than murderers, the only difference being that they had a legal monopoly on killing.

usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas.

Replace risk with certainty. You have no worries about losing control if you aren't threatened. Once you are certain about yourself, external threats don't exist anymore, because threat is the same as fear, and knowing who you are is a fearless state. Who you are is the true self. Expanded awareness takes you closer to this true self; therefore, fear decreases. When that happens, the issue of control lessens. In its place you experience a state of increased freedom.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

Ruling the world is child's play. To truly rule your soul is like ruling creation. It is above even the gods.

In all practically relevant cases, governments—or more accurately the individuals involved in governmental process—do possess the power to coerce.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger, their word is the last word.

If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.