Quotes About Control

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

The sky cannot have two suns.

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

What seems over your head is always under His feet.

You can't compartmentalize unforgiveness. You can't control sin. You can't manage sin. Sin is never satisfied with the amount of you it possesses.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.