Quotes About Control

Yeah, well. They're more like 'Keep Out' signs, or 'Keep In,' I guess—as in keeping you guys in your place. The world goes on for a whole lot farther, trust me. This is just a trick to keep you from knowing it.

In this city, apparently, the authorities crushed revolutions before they started, by turning them into homework.

everyone in the city is manipulated. The purpose of everything we're taught is to make us afraid of change.

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I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.

That kind of random surveillance is almost impossible to defeat.

Put it in their face," Gotti urged Sammy the Bull Gravano. "They want to see fucking lions and tigers and that's what we are.

The district attorneys were usually hand-picked incompetents designated by the Democratic Party's Tammany Hall Club, a group of party leaders who controlled nominations and elections in Manhattan, a Democratic stronghold.

Mandelman, Stephen. Comrade Criminal: Russia's New Mafiya. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

And it is the way of women. We allow each other our individuality. We do not insist that we dominate or control.

Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.

The linchpin has figured out that we get only a certain number of brain cycles to spend each day. Spending even one on a situation out of our control has a significant opportunity cost.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them. ~ Seth Godin

Great design = getting people to do what you want.

If your agenda is set by someone else and it doesn't lead you where you want to go, why is it your agenda?

Fear of living without a map is the main reason people are so insistent that we tell them what to do.

Response is always better than reaction.

alternative to planning on late is to initiate before it's required, to ship before deadline, to put the idea out there before the crisis hits. This act of bravery actually gives you influence, leverage, and control in a way that planning on late never can. Dandelion

we give up our freedoms and responsibilities in exchange for the certainty that comes from being told what to do

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Sooner or later, each of us becomes (for a while) the kind of person who believes in the reptile people that control the earth. We're seeking our own little pocket of uniqueness.

We hesitate to make a promise like "the show will be on at 11:30," because we're not sure we can meet the deadline and make it happen in a way that allows us to control the outcome.

Schools have figured this out. They need shortcuts in order to successfully process millions of students a year, and they've discovered that fear is a great shortcut on the way to teaching compliance.

Like scared civilians eager to do whatever a despot tells them, we give up our freedoms and responsibilities in exchange for the certainty that comes from being told what to do.