Quotes About Control

LEARN TO LAUGH at yourself more freely. Don't take yourself or your circumstances so seriously. Relax and know that I am God with you. When you desire My will above all else, life becomes much less threatening. Stop trying to monitor My responsibilities—things that are beyond your control. Find freedom by

Your sense of security must not rest in your possessions or in things going your way. I am training you to depend on Me alone, finding fulfillment in My Presence. This entails being satisfied with much or with little, accepting either as My will for the moment. Instead of grasping and controlling, you are learning to release and receive. Cultivate this receptive stance by trusting Me in every situation.

The only thing you can grasp without damaging your soul is My hand. Ask My Spirit within you to order your day and control your thoughts, for the mind controlled by the Spirit is Life and Peace.

It is not so much adverse events that make you anxious as it is your thoughts about those events. Your mind engages in efforts to take control of a situation, to bring about the result you desire.

A gun is a terrible thing. It's a dark hole pointed at you, and that hole swallows up everything else in the world, your friends, your nerve, until there's nothing but you and what's waiting in that little round space of dark.

I reminded myself I shouldn't knock the wig off her head. My betrothed might be here, and first impressions were important.

Israel maintains its pressure on the Palestinian population not simply for its own security, then, but because such pressure has for four decades enabled it to maintain control over the territories- and, quite simply, because it encourages Palestinians to leave.

Even today with most women working, even women without AD/HD have issues around money and taking care of their financial affairs. They aren't as knowledgeable about financial matters as they'd like to be and often have control, power, and dependency issues. Combine this with AD/HD and feelings of being overwhelmed, and it creates an even greater tendency to shut down and tune out in this area.

This feeling of not having control, even when one has a strong motivation or desire, is a strong contributor to depressed feelings.

I think Vaughn has Social Anxiety Disorder but he's too much of a control freak to give in to it.

I can say no at any time " "Yes." "But aren't I supposed to do whatever you say " "Only if you want to. That's what makes the power exchange of D s so potent. It's a free exchange one that is meant to give us both what we need.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Whenever the word power is mentioned, somebody sooner or later will refer to the classical statement of Lord Acton and cite it as follows: "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." In fact the correct quotation is: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." We can't even read Acton's statement accurately, our minds are so confused by our conditioning.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Your mind is a horse you ride, Merrick. No one can hold the reins for you -- Grandad

But humans want to usurp the place of God, making themselves the center of the Story.

No wonder the rulers of this age want to stop the singing, or pollute it with ideology and managed slogans!

I believe everybody in the world should have guns. I also believe that only I should have ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of you goobers with anything more dangerous than a string.

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

Professional management was born from the desire to optimize and control, not to lead waves of change.

Defensive management is blind to recognizing how obsessing about preventing bad things also prevents good things from happening or sometimes even prevents anything from happening at all.

E-mail empowers the sender. They can put in your inbox whatever they like

There's a degree of control that the filter of technology gives you—a control that introverts often prefer.