Quotes About Control

In racing, they say your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me. Is it true?

Your car goes where your eyes go.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there. Still,

which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience.

I knew that once they identified her disease for her, once everyone around her accepted her diagnosis and reinforced it and repeated it back to her time and again, there was no way she could stop it. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

I also believe that man's continued domestication (if you care to use that silly euphemism) of dogs is motivated by fear: fear that dogs, left to evolve on their own, would, in fact, develop thumbs and smaller tongues, and therefore would be superior to men, who are slow and cumbersome, standing erect as they do. This is why dogs must live under the constant supervision of people, and are immediately put to death when found living on their own.

A man who drives a two-thousand-pound car at one hundred seventy miles per hour does not get flustered by the honking of the geese.

Kar udejanjamo je pred nami; sami oblikujemo svojo usodo.

The car goes where your eyes go.

Dirka?i pravijo, da avto pelje v smer pogleda. Voznik, ki ne more odtrgati o?i od ograde, ko izgubi nadzor, se zaleti vanjo; voznik, ki pogleda na stezo, ko za?uti, da so zavore proste, si povrne oblast nad vozilom. Avto gre, kamor gredo o?i. Druga?e re?eno, kar udejanjaš, je pred tabo.

Ideally, a driver is a master of all that is around him, Denny says. Ideally, a driver controls the car so completely that he corrects a spin before it happens, he anticipates all possibilities. But we don't live in an ideal world. In our world, surprises sometimes happen, mistakes happen, incidents with other drivers happen, and a driver must react.

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.

You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.

stomachs aren't supposed

With every crisis, authority moves to the center, and stays there. And as bureaucracy grows stronger, those who might resist it grow weaker.

The word bureaucratie was coined in the early eighteenth century by Jean-Claude Marie Vincent, a French government minister. Translated as "the rule of desks," the label was not intended as a compliment. Vincent viewed France's vast administrative apparatus as a threat to the spirit of enterprise. (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.) A century later, in 1837, the British philosopher John Stuart Mill described bureaucracy as a vast tyrannical network.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many

Communism was precisely the abolition of and liberation from the rule of human products that gains power over human communities, grows out of control, constrains human expectations, and blights the lives of many.

The highest art of the chessplayer lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do.

Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.

must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.