Quotes About Control

This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter. But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience

Given the right experimental manipulations, people can be led to believe that they consciously intended an action when they neither chose it nor had control over their movements.

You are not in control of your mind—because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.

But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life.

Consider what it would take to actually have free will. You would need to be aware of all the factors that determine your thoughts and actions, and you would need to have complete control over those factors.

A puppet is free so long as he loves his strings

IT is no accident that people of faith often want to curtail the private freedoms of others.

Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we have exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.

Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.

Every person is a puppet who didn't pick his own strings and those strings reach back to the big bang.

Our wills are simply not of own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.