Quotes About Control

As long as the animals that produce the manure you put in your garden do not subsist on weeds, you can use the manure with confidence to improve your soil's structure and fertility. Also keep in mind that it's easier to control weeds than it is to grow healthy flowers and vegetables in weak, infertile soil.

Her chief work in life was interfering in other people's business and imposing her strong personality upon those who were weaker than herself.

The aim of yoga is to eliminate the control that material nature exerts over the human spirit, to rediscover through introspective practice what the poet T.S. Eliot called "the still point of the turning world."

For one whose thought is tranquil, mastery extends from the most minute particle to the vast expanse. -Patanjali

A young dog under pressure will make mistakes and pressure on a dog is usually caused by an impatient handler.

Never take hold of a dog's collar and pull him to where you want him to be, as this is a direct confrontation to a dog and can make a strong-minded dog want to be dominant and a gentle or sensitive dog may be made to feel submissive, neither of which you want in your dog. There

A Collie who learns to chase a ball before he learns how to control his enthusiasm can become ball-obsessed. A Collie who learns how to invent his own game with a ball, before running to retrieve one, will be less obsessive, and will be able to amuse himself without getting over-excited.

Yes, damn it, I love you! But the bedroom is not the boardroom, Robert. In the boardroom only one person can be in charge.

Mary never made it to the board meeting. Cunning Elizabeth simply arranged for her cousin's tennis instructor to "delay" her for an hour or two. The man was evidently a superb athlete, though it was entirely Mary's fault that she fell asleep afterwards. Elizabeth took control of the company that very afternoon, by a vote of six to one, while a sated Mary slept. And the silly girl never knew what hit her.

Staying thin wasn't just a losing battle with Cosette but a series of skirmishes in which about fifty percent of the time her side won.

Insensitive people are powerful and the thoroughly thick-skinned are the most powerful. They make the best tyrants.

In a dependent relationship, the protégé can always control the protector by threatening to collapse.

They resented the patronage they depended upon.

To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. States function only in terms of what those in control perceive as power or personal ambition, and both of these wear blinkers.

Political balance among the competing groups was unstable because the king had no permanent armed force at his command.

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

Though surnamed the Wise, he was not immune from the occupational disease of rulers: overestimation of their capacity to control events. No

I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon

Command, deprived of personal judgment, can win no battles.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

Folly is a child of power.

if people could be made to save money, the King could obtain it when necessary.

He fought all proposals designed to increase the political power of the masses. When still

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. When