Quotes About Control

No matter how much we plan, how well trained and prepared we are, there is always an element of chaos.

The best possible medical care begins with self-care, which allows you to exert some control over your own well-being.

Real power is—I don't even want to use the word—fear," Trump told us. "I bring rage out. I do bring rage out. I always have. I don't know if that's an asset or a liability, but whatever it is, I do.

Tillerson said, and the floodgates gushed open. "The president can't make a decision. He doesn't know how to make a decision.

Real power is fear.

Trump is the perfect foil," he summarized. "He's the bad father, the terrible first husband, the boyfriend that fucked you over and wasted all those years, and [you] gave up your youth for, and then dumped you. And the terrible boss that grabbed you by the pussy all the time and demeaned you.

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

Cohn concluded that Trump just loved to pit people against each other.

Real power is—I don't even want to use the word—fear." Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump in an interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on March 31, 2016, at the Old Post Office Pavilion, Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Trump had a way of appearing to strengthen his own hand by creating a situation, often risky, that did not previously exist.

I realized," Bannon said later, "I'm the director, he's the actor.

Mattis had a general operating philosophy which he articulated many times over the years: "You don't always control your circumstances, but you can control your response.

their heels," Priebus said. "Put all the chips on the table. And then slowly but surely pick off each chip individually." It could be a person, a policy, a country, a foreign leader, a Republican, a Democrat, a controversy, an investigation—Trump would try to leverage anyone, by any means, and at times he would succeed.

The Deep State was not the problem. It was the up-in-your-face state.

Smith liked to think of Donald Trump as a hundred-year flood in American democracy. But he told colleagues there was nothing Congress could put into law to protect the country if a lunatic wound up in the White House. The war-making power was ceded to the president as commander in chief. The only power Congress had, in a practical sense, was to cut off the money. He believed the system for controlling the use of nuclear weapons was vulnerable.

excessive anger against authority, vindictiveness and temper tantrums. As far as she was concerned, that described the press.

Graham made a dramatic proposal to Kelly and McMaster. "China needs to kill him and replace him with a North Korean general they control," Graham said. China had at least enough control so the North would not attack. "I think the Chinese are clearly the key here and they need to take him out. Not us, them.

realized," Bannon said later, "I'm the director, he's the actor.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone off the rails.

How can you be yourself when you are being blown in a million different directions you can't control?

Despite the absence of fetters, chains, and guards, the doctor was forced to submit to his unfreedom, which looked imaginary.