Quotes About Control

Ainoa asia, jota onnetar ei säätele, on käyttäytymiseni.

Stálin não poderia ter existido em um município".

We have always been crazy but weren't skilled enough to destroy the world. Now we can.

Stalin could not have existed in a municipality.

Karl Marx, a visionary figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee The sacred is all about unconditionals ; the profane is all about conditionals

You always control what you do; so make this your end.

Even more: dependence on circumstances—rather, the emotions that arise from circumstances—induces a form of slavery.

o acesso a dados aumenta a intervenção, fazendo com que nos comportemos como o sujeito neurótico.

I propose that if you want a simple step to a higher form of life, as distant from the animal as you can get, then you may have to denarrate, that is, shut down the television set, minimize time spent reading newspapers, ignore the blogs. Train your reasoning abilities to control your decisions; nudge System 1 (the heuristic or experiential system) out of the important ones. Train yourself to spot the difference between the sensational and the empirical.

We saw with the minority rule that the intolerant will run over the tolerant;

In the end we are being driven by history, all the while thinking that we are doing the driving.

The turkey problem can be generalized to any situation where the same hand that feeds you can be the one that wrings your neck. Consider

Administrators everywhere on the planet, in all businesses and pursuits, and at all times in history, have been the plague.

It is much easier to signal self-confidence if you are exceedingly polite and friendly; you can control people without having to offend their sensitivity.

Another way to see the beastly aspect of schedules and rigid projections is to think in limit situations. Would you like to know with great precision the date of your death? Would you like to know who committed the crime before the beginning of the movie? Actually, wouldn't it be better if the length of movies were kept a secret?

the further from headquarters an employee is located, the more autonomous his unit, the more you want him to be a slave so he does nothing strange on his own.

Una heurística sobre si tienes el control de tu vida: ¿puedes echarte siestas?

But I also buy the opposite argument that regulating street signs does not seem to reduce risks; drivers become more placid. Experiments show that alertness is weakened when one relinquishes control to the system (again, lack of overcompensation). Motorists need the stressors and tension coming from the feeling of danger to feed their attention and risk controls, rather than some external regulator—fewer pedestrians die jaywalking than using regulated crossings.

She had wanted to cough as soon as it occurred to her that she mustn't, and she passed a long hour trying to swallow away the tickle that perversely constricted her throat.

If we are willing to take responsibility for that which is within our power, I think that frees us to see clearly that which is not, and to understand, therefore, the limits of our accountability. But if we too often fail to take such responsibility and feel vaguely guilty over our avoidance, the paradox is that in our confusion we often end up blaming ourselves for events beyond our control.

If, in spite of his best efforts, a man fails in a particular undertaking, he does not experience the same emotion of pride that he would feel if he had succeeded; but, if he is rational, his self-esteem is unaffected and unimpaired. His self-esteem is not—or should not be—dependent on particular successes or failures, since these are not necessarily in a man's direct, volitional control and/or not in his exclusive control.

Para el hombre racional, psicológicamente sano, el deseo de obtener placer es el deseo de celebrar su control sobre la realidad. Para el neurótico, el deseo de placer es el deseo de huir de la realidad".

Desires and emotions as such are involuntary; they are not subject to direct and immediate volitional control; they are the automatic result of subconscious integrations. (...) It is impossible to compute the magnitude of the disaster, the wreckage of human lives, produced by the belief that desires and emotions can be commanded in and out of existence by an act of will.

Self-assertiveness" without consciousness is not self-assertiveness; it is drunk-driving.