Quotes About Control

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

261. And for me, to be a ruler is a worthwhile ambition, even if you're in Hell.

Acceptance and commitment therapy, a variant on cognitive therapy, attempts to teach people to accept rather than change their emotions and make decisions within the context of what they value, as opposed to letting negative feelings control their behavior.

As I have argued, the essence of anxiety is the unpleasant feeling—the apprehension, dread, angst, and worry—that one experiences when one perceives a lack of control in situations of uncertainty and risk. It

Emotional responses are not always external mirrors of internal feelings. but are rather controlled by more fundamental processes.

If you are standing still and decide to take a step, the movement of your leg on the basis of your decision involves axons that originate in cell bodies located in the movement control regions in the frontal cortex (just behind your forehead) and that travel uninterrupted to the base of the spinal column (in the region of your lower back).

Security is about how you configure power, and who has access to what. That is political," Song said.

Your conscious mind is the captain and the master of your ship, which represents your body, environment, and all your affairs.

The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thought.

All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.

The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.

Confronting authority, one has only two choices: Surrender, or try to confuse it.

all of them are ideologues, and the ideology is, quite simply put, global domination by a self-appointed elite.

its first major weakness, for being committed rather unscientifically to such a closed system in which progress is to be shunned and suppressed, the Group shows that it is incapable of adaptability to changing circumstances that are not under its own control.

But the policeman radiates the calm and ease of a traffic light;

Sometimes the district captain swung his cane slightly; it hinted at an exuberance that knows where to stop.

Orders mostly became "institutional vacuities

power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes one wants.

Blood Will Rule the Forest

Which is why taking control of their Clan won't be a problem. Those weak fools in WindClan are so used to taking orders from ThunderClan that they'll hardly notice the difference.

Then Bramblestar spoke, his voice quiet, but full of menace. "I am your leader. My word is the code.

I must not bite him. Moon

Because I was afraid she would claw my ears off if I forbade her from going

Yes, we'll go look," he replied sternly. "But you will stay with the rest of us and not dash around like a demented snow hare!