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Quotes About Control

It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.
~ Émile Coué
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
~ William Shakespeare
When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.
~ Saulo Ribeiro
For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
~ Boris Spassky
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time.
~ Rhonda Byrne
I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.
~ Ryan Seacrest
Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
~ Dario Fo
He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
The violence of our time is caused by obedience.
~ Howard Zinn
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.
~ Bertrand de Jouvenel
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.
~ Chris Van Allsburg
The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.
~ Henry Ford
You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.
~ James Hunter
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.
~ Alexei Shirov
I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
~ Mary Parker Follett
If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.
~ Haruki Murakami
Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.
~ Harvey Mackay
Traditionally people are on the side of the government all the time.
~ Immortal Technique
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
~ Brian Eno
There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.
~ Dan Millman
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.
~ Dionysius of Halicarnassus