Quotes About Control

As man has managed to turn himself into a player of the world, the sole thing that can now prevent him from using all his possibilities of playing, is to make him believe that he did not invent the rules of the game.

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

I think everything depends on money.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Para una dictadura moderna, toda organización que sea independiente ya es política.

Tutto nasce dalla paura. Molte battaglie non vengono vinte dalla sola capacità di battersi, ma dal controllo degli istinti degli uomini.

You can predict which features in any new technology will be used and which won't. The use of a feature is inversely proportional to the amount of interaction needed to control

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

I also understood how events or circumstances could cascade out of control and your entire ability to deal with the present can be lost. When

I also understood how events or circumstances could cascade out of control and your entire ability to deal with the present can be lost.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.

No one has a gun to your head. You are the primary agenda-setter in your life.

Was Eve's sin so much greater and more unforgivable than Adam's that the entire female gender must forever be treated with suspicion and controlling measures?

What was Trotsky's quote? "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

Nephew, there ain't a man alive that can stand up ta the power of that little cooter. The holt it has on a man is unbreakable. It'll bring a strong man ta his knees. Read your history. Look at the kings an' kingdoms that have fallen ta that little split tail. Prentice Ritter

It was all Ray could do not to pee his green pants.

Purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs. Dee Hock, The Birth of the Chaordic Age The

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. —Alfred A. Montapert

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.