Quotes About Control

Desde que un ser humano aprendió a escribir y divulgar sus palabras, nunca faltó otro que quisiera borrarlas, destruirlas, hacerlas desaparecer de la faz de la Tierra.

Los hilos invisibles que manejan el destino de las personas a veces quedan en evidencia, y lo que parece obra del Gran Demiurgo se convierte en la función de un mal titiritero. No existen los encuentros casuales. Las

One doesn't remember one's own life chronologically, the way it happened, what was most important, or even what seemed most important. We are not in control of our memories. One doesn't own one's memories. One is owned by them.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

Tus hijas están y viven como metidas en alacenas. Pero ni tú ni nadie puede vigilar por el interior de los pechos. BERNARDA.

ANGUSTIAS.—Yo creo, madre, que él me oculta muchas cosas. BERNARDA.—No procures descubrirlas, no le preguntes y, desde luego, que no te vea llorar jamás.

BERNARDA: Aquí se hace lo que yo mando. Ya no puedes ir con el cuento a tu padre. Hilo y aguja para las hembras. Látigo y mula para el varón. Eso tiene la gente que nace con posibles

tengo que escupir, tengo que escupir por no matar.

La primera enseñanza de la polis griega es que la peor ley escrita es mejor que el albedrío del más magnánimo de los señores. No es extraño qüe la aristocracia primitiva exigiese que las leyes le asegurasen su poder mediante «draconianas» disposiciones, y que, aun así, la aceptación de las leyes hubiese de serle arrancada. Sabía que la concesión que se veía obligada a hacer era cualitativamente impagable, que no podía haber contrapartida equivalente.

When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.

To become rich you must be an owner. And you must try to own it all. You must strive with every fibre of your being, while recognising the idiocy of your behaviour, to own and retain control of as near to 100 per cent of any company as you can. If that is not possible, in a public company, for example, then you must be prepared to make yourself hated by those around you who are also trying to be rich. That is the dirty, rotten little secret of it all, my friend.

Never, never, never, never hand over a single share of anything you have acquired or created if you can help it. Nothing. Not one share. To no one. No matter what the reason – unless you genuinely have to. Do

Instead of attempting to stay in day-to-day control, I have devised a system where I keep overall control, but do not involve myself in running a business unless I wish to get involved for a particular reason. I use the power of veto instead. By

Bossy people and glory hounds are mostly interested in building a power base so they can have yet more people to boss about. It's pitiful and a little sad, but we have all seen it. We saw it in school. We saw it in the playground. We saw it in college. And we saw it in our first job. If you are observant, you have been seeing it nearly all your life. Such

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Does anger empower me in a powerless situation? If so, can I find another source of strength?

Uno sbaglio della natura. Perché così come abbiamo le palpebre per smettere di vedere quando non ne abbiamo voglia, dovremmo poter disporre di due saracinesche nel canale auditivo. Le chiudiamo e non dovremmo più sentire quello che non vogliamo sentire.

Yo me he dado cuenta de una cosa. Nos esforzamos por darle un sentido, una forma, una orden a la vida, y al final la vida hace con una lo que le da la gana

A los violentos les encantaría que todos participáramos en su juego. Así tendrían pruebas de esa guerra que solo existe en sus cabezas

Averile nu te fac bogat, ci-Å£i sporesc grijile; nu te fac st?pân, ci v?taf. Mai mulÅ£i sunt cei st?pâniÅ£i de bog??ii, decât cei ce le st?pânesc.

The company becomes full of rigid controls, checks, and procedures that attempt to force people to act responsibly, but which actually create further walls between people and bring effective action to a grinding halt.

The primary message of Dependency and Development was that the people of Latin America had control over their own fate. Under certain circumstances, we could indeed operate within the existing system. Many alternatives were possible within that system, and the fatalism that dominated the region at that time was entirely pointless, we wrote. There would, of course, be certain restrictions, and we did not advocate blind free-market capitalism.