Quotes About Control

Try telling a starving vampire to control himself when there's warm blood on his lips. You'd have as much luck telling a burning man not to scream.

Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.

Determination, of course, being nothing more than anger with brakes and a steering wheel.

Our lives are lived with the illusion of control and then there are moments rare as wisdom when we abandon the pretense that we are masters of our fate.

Then, as now, anti-vaccination forces fed on anxiety about the individual's fate in industrialized societies; then, as now, they appealed to knee-jerk populism by conjuring up an imaginary elite with an insatiable hunger for control; then, as now, they preached the superiority of subjective beliefs over objective proofs, of knowledge acquired by personal experience rather than through scientific rigor.

I've seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it.

what is called the "subconscious mind" is actually a result of the neural activity of the brain itself — your brain's neurons silently firing, without your control or awareness — rather than being a part of the activity of the "mind." In fact, the process can take place without the brain discussing it with the mind at all.

The world is made up of those who take control of their choices—and those who don't.  Those who succeed use this tool every day they live, from the moment they find it. What an incredible gift this tool is!  You get to make the choices that can change your life.   The

When I completed my course work, it was my final opinion that you can never really get anyone to do anything they don't want to do unless you use force. I decided that in most of the world, "force" is called advertising

called thoughts. ?Every thought we think, every conscious or unconscious thought we say to ourselves, is translated into electrical impulses in the brain, which, in turn, direct the control centers in our brains to electrically and chemically affect and control every motion, every feeling, every action we take, every moment of every day. ?Whatever "thoughts" you

Remember, the subconscious mind will believe anything you tell it if you tell it long enough and strongly enough. It will simply go to work to carry out its new directives. Your subconscious mind will receive the new direction, create a new, more successful picture of you in your control center, and, over time, will convince you to put the cigarette out, put down the fork instead of eating that extra dessert

Imagine, then, what happens when your over-active amygdala teams up with your overly-negative self-talk. When it does, all bets are off. Suddenly, it's mental chaos! The alarm bells are clanging and your self-talk goes into total negative and makes everything triple-worse. You are no longer in control. Even good things look bad. Promise and hope fly out the window. The only thing left in the room is tension and panic––and your stress level goes through the roof!

We control with our own minds most everything in our lives, including our health, our careers, our relationships, and our futures

mastering one's future must surely start with managing one's "self." And if we could accomplish that, we could manage and master at least a part of what we call "life.

Instead of figuring out what I wanted, setting goals, and trying to control what happened to me, I began to practice tuning in receptively to my intuition and acting on what it told me without always understanding why I was doing what I was doing. It was a feeling of letting go of control, surrendering, and allowing the higher power to be in charge.

my mother put me in the box and made it very clear that her love was conditional upon my remaining in the box.

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty. He would be unable to raise his hand in punishment or to untangle the web woven by good and evil.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

When the people are weak, the state is strong; hence the state that possesses the Way devotes itself to weakening the people.

People with low self-esteem seldom try to take over the world." Suddenly,

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

You'd better not talk about microscopes anymore," he whispered, "or I don't know if I can control myself.

Whenever I get bird meat, I like to eat it in the open, let the falcons and hawks see who the boss is. Me. I'm the boss.