Quotes About Control

He turned back. Emptied the tube of glue into the first guy's palms and crushed them together and counted to ten. Chemical handcuffs

He was a nice person, back when that meant something. But you better not mess with his sense of right and wrong. Underneath he was a bomb waiting to go off. He had it under control. He was a very self-disciplined person. He had a rule. If you did a bad thing, he would make sure you only did it once. Whatever it took.

They were all puppets, animated by the properties, responsibilities, and relationships they were tied to

Even when the couple disabled "location history" or "location services" in an app, their wishes were ignored. The couple was more closely monitored than a paroled child molester with a tamperproof GPS tracker around his ankle.

I feel like a child. But I learn a little something every day. It's like a whole new way of living. It's a willingness to give up control. To make a commitment and have faith it'll work out.

Communism is like one big phone company.

Impaired trunk proprioception and deficits in trunk control have been shown to be predictors of knee injury (Zazulak et al 2007a, 2007b).

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Never make a decision when you need to pee.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

At times it was impossible for him to control the praise and predictions that issued from him like thanks, and he was aware of exaggerating; yet he felt a boxer needed someone who believed in him, and if it were true that confidence could win fights, then he could not be sure his overestimates were really that at all. Guiding

if events are random, we are not in control, and if we are in control of events, they are not random. There is therefore a fundamental clash between our need to feel we are in control and our ability to recognize randomness.

There is therefore a fundamental clash between our need to feel we are in control and our ability to recognize randomness.

Langer showed again and again how the need to feel in control interferes with the accurate perception of random events.

The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of it.

Acceptance is the heart of the stoic approach: you can lessen emotional pain if you accept that the "worst" may happen and focus only on what you can do to respond

Research suggests that your happiness set point as well as circumstances and recent events accounts for much but not all of your happiness level. What about the rest? That's due to our behavior, and the good news is, in contrast to the others, this factor is very much under our control.

survival in Nazi concentration camps "depended on one's ability to arrange to preserve some areas of independent action, to keep control of some important aspects of one's life despite an environment that seemed overwhelming.

if events are random, we are not in control, and if we are in control of events, they are not random. There is therefore a fundamental clash between our need to feel we are in control and our ability to recognize randomness. That clash is one of the principal reasons we misinterpret random events.

We all hold dear the idea that we're the captain of our own soul, and we're in charge, and it's a very scary feeling when we're not. In fact, that's what psychosis is—the feeling of detachment from reality and that you're not in control, and that's a very frightening feeling for anyone.

one of the most beneficial things we can do for ourselves is to look for ways to exercise control over our lives—or at least to look for ways that help us feel that we do.

to keep control of some important aspects of one's life despite an environment that seemed overwhelming.

Later studies showed that a prior sense of helplessness and lack of control is linked to both stress and the onset of disease.

The defenders of capitalism spent their time broadcasting the vibrations of guilt and futility. Implicitly or explicitly, they were telling the country: human intelligence is impotent to control the course of society, men are helpless in the face of their own motivation, laissez-faire appeals to the evil in men, but men are stuck with it.