Quotes About Control

The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts," said Mr. Wilde. "You are speaking of the King in Yellow," I groaned, with a shudder. "He

They may alternate between an extremely dependent posture on one hand, and an authoritarian stance when they are in the parental mode.

James Reason reminds us, "Errors are largely unintentional. It is very difficult for management to control what people did not intend to do in the first place.

There's a saying in aviation that the airplane of the future will no longer have two humans in the cockpit. Instead, there will be a pilot and a dog. The pilot will be there to keep the dog company. The dog will be there to bite the pilot if he tries to touch the controls.

The balance of power.

Sometimes I thought I would die and other times wished I had."11 Although the FDA held a hearing on the matter, it did not impose any legal control on benzodiazepines similar to what had been placed on amphetamines and barbiturates, and so the public's belief that the drugs were relatively nonaddictive and harmless survived until 1975, when the U.S. Justice Department demanded that they be classified as schedule IV drugs

Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.

It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.

realizing you're not king can be the first step toward getting some real power.

So form—the stuff the human body is made of—isn't really under our control. Therefore, says the Buddha, it must be the case that "form is not-self." We are not our bodies.

happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

In which case, he was basically saying: 'Look, if there is part of you that isn't under your control and therefore makes you suffer, then do yourself a favor and quit identifying with it.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a meditation teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, has said, "Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

It may seem seem cynical to see all religion as basically self-serving, and indeed the idea has been put pithily by a famous cynic. H.L. Mencken said of religion, "Its single function is to give man access to the powers which seem to control his destiny, and its single purpose is to induce those powers to be friendly to him.

The keen sensitivity with which people detect the flaws of their rivals is one of nature's wonders. It takes a Herculean effort to control this tendency consciously, and the effort must be repeated on a regular basis.... Honesty of evaluation is simply beyond the reach of most mortals.

associate the self with control and with firm persistence through time, but on close inspection we turn out to be much less under control, and much more fluid, with a much less fixed identity, than we think.

So if the conscious mind isn't in control, what is in control?

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

cheque. Ya llegaron esos tipos, pero primero veremos a Barsut. ¡Que esperen, qué diablo! ¿Se da cuenta usted de mi situación? Con ese dinero el mundo es nuestro.

me di cuenta que la revolución social sería imposible sobre la tierra porque un Rockefeller o un Morgan podían destruir con un solo gesto una raza, como usted en su jardín un nido de hormigas.

en Italia? Le cito esto como una prueba de la eficacia del bastón en la espalda de los pueblos. La cuestión es apoderarse del alma de una generación... El resto se hace solo.

sandanista or somocista the police is always the police

Mi relación con Piel Divina era secreta, al menos hasta donde la situación era controlable por mi. No quiero decir con esto que en mi circulo de amigos desconocieran mi homosexualidad, que yo llevaba con discreción pero sin ocultamiento. Lo que si desconocían era que me entendiera con un real visceralista, si bien el mas atípico de todos, un real visceralista al fin y al cabo.

They turned chaos into order, even if it was at the cost of what is commonly known as sanity.