Quotes About Control

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.

I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours. Then I might move on to the cutting.

I am constantly approached by people who are willing to go to any extreme for personal safety...except practicing basic emotional control.

An example of this is if he tells you "get in the car." You never go to a secondary location– ever.

I know it doesn't sound logical but that's the way it is ' said papá. 'There are people who try to control the people they love or try to make them feel insecure or inferior or unworthy. They can be very hurtful but they're the sad people. They're afraid of being abandoned they're afraid of not being loved.' pg 116

Afraid she would laugh, she focused elsewhere, landing in Tuvok's familiar, structured psyche, which she always pictured as a spice rack, neatly organized alphabetically

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled? What is outside my mind means nothing to it. Absorb that lesson and your feet stand firm.

That all is as thinking makes it so – and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay.

Anger and the sorrow it produces are far more harmful than the things which make us angry.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself.

To change your experience, change your opinion. If you're upset by something outside you, it's not the thing itself that upsets you, but your opinion of it. And it's in your power to wipe away that opinion immediately.

52. You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.

Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control.

Honor and revere the gods, treat human beings as they deserve, be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control.

If within the power of another, whom do you blame—atoms or gods? To do either is folly.

17. If a thing is in your own power, why do you do it? But if it is in the power of another, whom do you blame? The atoms (chance) or the gods? Both are foolish. You must blame nobody. For if you can, correct that which is the cause; but if you cannot do this, correct at least the thing itself; but if you cannot do even this, of what use is it to you to find fault? For nothing should be done without a purpose.

Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all. And before long you'll be no one, nowhere.