Quotes
Quotes about Control
Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.
If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the inpression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters?
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character
Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.".
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
