Quotes About Control

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

The world sometimes seems a chessboard where the pieces move themselves. I'm never sure what square to go to. Yet it can't be a difficult game, most folk play it instinctively.

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.

Order is needed by the ignorant but it takes a genius to master chaos.

For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.

There can never be complete agreement on international control and the administration of atomic energy or on general disarmament until there is a modification of the traditional concept of national sovereignty. For as long as atomic energy and armaments are considered a vital part of national security no nation will give more than lip service to international treaties.

The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it

Dua. I'm the master of my own fate - I'm the Captain of my soul. I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. You can will what you want, but you can't will what you will

Planung ersetzt Zufall durch Irrtum.

Anger is the only negative emotion that people all over the world usually want to keep.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Intense rage will normally make you stew instead of do when you encounter unfairness, and if you act while enraged you will often fight foolishly and badly.

people often want to remain angry. This represents a very important difference between anger and other troublesome emotions.