Quotes About Control

In the practice of mindfulness, the ego's usual insistence on control and security is deliberately and progressively undermined. This is accomplished by steadily shifting one's center of gravity from the thinking mind to a neutral object like the breath, or in the case of my workshop, the random sounds of the environment.

History is made by the winners... and written by those with the loudest voices...

Taking your own life. Interesting expression, taking it from who? Once it's gone it's not you who'll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everyone else. Your life is not your own, keep your hands off it!

why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

I needed to keep my watch on because I needed to know exactly what time it was. And when they tried to take it off me I screamed, so they let me keep it on.

She believed that the arrogance of humankind created a deadly irony: in their determination to control nature, human beings posed a growing threat to all life on earth, including their own.

He heard the Baymen tell of war, but they never said it could be harnessed, its head held down, and made to run in place.

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile. I didn't bring you up only to move across sure ground. I didn't teach you to think that everything must be within our control or understanding. Did I? For, if I did, I was wrong.

follow Churchill's admonition, "I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you,"123

What's the difference what you watch?" Praeger shot back. "When that stream of hypnotic electrons starts winging into your brain, you're finished, good-as-gone, condemned to hell. No matter what it is, if you don't move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work.

life in our modern era is little more than life in an open-air mind-control laboratory.

Venice manipulated markets by controlling production. In the late thirteenth century, wishing to raise the world market price, Venice had all saltworks in Crete destroyed and banned the local production of salt.

At about this time the Asiatic wolf, a fierce predator that despite its small size would eat a human if it had the opportunity, came under human control because its friendly young cubs could be fed and trained. A dangerous adversary was turned into a dedicated helper—the dog.

the dissemination of information alone does not set people free, and a new information technology creates a new ruling class.

Church leadership has often used its positional authority to control believers who have expressed a desire for more individual freedom within the church. Because we haven't known what to do with individuals who are strong in their expression and who have a high view of their individual authority in Christ, we have over-preached collective Christianity.

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.

If we begin to fear chaos and tighten down the controls too much, we'll have order but no creativity and, well, no life.

Gandhi saw that the power of any tyrant depends entirely on people being willing to obey.

Under Big Government, the ruling class get power and perks,...but others among the ruled class just get unruly.

Taliban: Americans have all the watches, but we have all the time.

The free world is shuffling into a psychological bondage whose chains are mostly of our own making.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

I didn't cry, because, actually, I was an intercontinental ballistic missile, with an atomic warhead; they don't cry. Why