Quotes About Control

As with all the strategies in this book, we must recognize that no strategy can turn us into perfectly rational actors. In addition, we can make the best possible decisions and still not get the result we want.

El objeto más envidiable y el más caro era el coche, sinónimo de libertad, de control total del espacio, y en cierta manera, del mundo.

such as the one encapsulated in the seventh principle: whenever possible, we should manage our thinking by generating cognitive loops.

You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.

Instead, will is the realization that we can regard each challenge as an opportunity to awaken to our highest potential. This does not deny what has come before, but incorporates it, using it as a springboard for the future. While we can't always control what happens to us, we can control what we do about it.

Issues of power, control, energy fuels, and political strength have become key themes in our current events. We have come a long way from iron spearheads to nuclear warheads, yet the disease of power used for control and domination has remained.

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

We won't make a drama out of a crisis.

Divide and rule.

The professionals at the State Board of Elections must assume control of the county board of elections operations in Bladen County, which has shown itself incapable of managing fair elections.

The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

Here in Indiana, we run a nationally-recognized program called the Healthy Indiana Plan. The Healthy Indiana Plan offers the uninsured an affordable health care plan with savings accounts that they control.

Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order.

Arcade-game characters have no free will. They're programmed to do one thing day in and day out - they don't have a choice in the matter.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

I understand some San Diegans may fear homeless programs and affordable housing coming to their community. But we can't let fear control our actions.

I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.

It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.

Magazine clips with more than 10 rounds should be prohibited from civilian use.