Quotes About Control

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

To be paralyzed is to feel powerless. Feeling powerless, your life becomes overwhelmed with chaos. Chaos leads to fear . . . fear turns you into a victim. A victim is someone who allows the outside world or their inner thoughts to control their consciousness.

Politics is a powerful drug.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary - James Madison

Knowledge is the first thing eradicated once power is attained. History has proven that over and over.

mastered their fate was more important than what that fate was.

Anger caused mistakes.

Communism's entire existence depended on coercion.

that all-important first impression, a narrative that is totally within your control, so work it to your advantage.

The soviets were terrified of God. … The less a government deifies itself, the more it should be respected.

Yet ignorance seemed the greatness weakness of conformity. A select few made all the decisions, and everyone else followed, regardless that those decisions could be wrong.

To keep people dependent on the church for their entire lifetime, create more sacraments.

A womb-to-grave influence over every aspect of a person's life, each milestone dependent solely on adherence to church doctrine.

The people who cast votes decide nothing. The people who count votes decide everything.

There really is something neurotic about Christians who spend most of their time trying desperately to please a God who is already very pleased. They don't have any freedom, and they sometimes take away the freedom of others.

From now on, make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.

8-Push all your own buttons: Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.

Self-motivation is all a matter of how much in control you want to be.

make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.

From now on, make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate

Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention

You keep looking around for who's in fucking charge, and there's just nobody like that at all. The cops just ride their horses back and forth through the park, up and down Fifth Avenue. Who the hell's angry on Fifth Avenue, that's what I want to know.

We all know the maxim "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." It's because we want the horse to drink that we become frustrated, because it's literally not in our power to accomplish the job we've set out to do for ourselves.

Give your mind a lot of space and it quiets down; try to control, quiet, or restrict it, and it goes wild.