Quotes About Control

See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

When you go out to the world because of the love that someone else has for you, you are all aglow not with your perception of reality but with the love that you have received from someone else; someone else controls the switch and when it is switched off the glow fades away.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

If you aren't consciously aware, you're vulnerable to either being brainwashed or being influenced by forces within you that you have no awareness of at all.

Trata de verte ahora reaccionando negativamente y hazte la siguiente pregunta: «¿Tengo yo el control de esta situación o, por el contrario, es la situación la que me domina a mí?».

dominio? Todo lo que tienes que hacer es comprender que hay personas en el mundo que, si estuvieran en tu lugar, no se verían afectadas negativamente por esa persona, sino que controlarían la situación y estarían por encima de ella, no sometidas a ella como tú lo estás.

Now you will realize that this beggar came to your home with an alms for you—the widening of your heart in compassion and the release of your spirit in freedom. Where before you used to be controlled (these persons had the power to create negative emotions in you and you went out of your way to avoid them) now you have the gift of freedom to avoid no one, to go anywhere.

Take a look at the people around you. Is there a single person among them who hasn't become addicted to those worldly feelings? Is there a single person who is not controlled by them, hungering for them, spending every minute of their waking life consciously or unconsciously seeking them? When you see this, you will understand how people attempt to gain the world and, in the process, lose their soul. For they live empty, soulless lives.

As long as you're fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

Mejor dicho: experimentas un instante de placer, que en modo alguno constituye la felicidad, porque viene acompañado de un difuso temor a que, en cualquier momento, ese mundo de cosas y personas que con tanto esfuerzo has conseguido construir escape a tu control y te llene de frustración, que es algo que, tarde o temprano, acaba siempre por suceder

You ever hope for something so much? So much you can't sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don't even know if the thing you're wishing for is possible? You don't even know if it could happen? And it's all out of your control?

She is in charge of everything, but no one knows. It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be responsible for every little thing, every infant born, every leaf falling from every tree, every wave that breaks onto the beach, every ant on its journey.

Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?" "Then a lot of people will be early. Or late.

and how could Neumann Two not have known, but of course he didn't, because that is how things are with Neumann Two, with everybody in this unit, in this army, in this world, they do as they're told, they get scared, they move about with only themselves in mind. Name me someone who does not.

there comes a point where the pressure of relentless fear perforates rationality and the body moves independently of the mind.

That Dr. Hauptmann might have ties so far up—that the telephone on his desk connects him with men a hundred miles away who could probably wag a finger and send a dozen Messerschmitts streaming up from an airfield to strafe some city—intoxicates Werner. We live in exceptional times.

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. —Joseph Goebbels

The soldiers throw a bag over whomever they want to remove, run electricity through him, and then that person is gone, vanished. Expelled to some other world.

Thermal scanners? Laser sights? Above the junipers, a trio of blue lights hover: some kind of remote-controlled drone. These, the creatures we have chosen to repopulate the earth.

Sabe a maior lição da história? A história é aquilo que os vitoriosos determinam. Eis a lição. Seja qual for o vencedor, ele é quem decide a história.

Sabes cuál es la lección más importante d ela historia? Que solo la escriben los vencedores. Esa es la lección. El que decide el rumbo de la historia es el que gana.

Too little fear and you don't pay enough attention; too much and you freeze.