Quotes About Control

Imagine a toddler repeatedly striking his mother in the face. Why would he do such a thing? It's a stupid question. It's unacceptably naive. The answer is obvious. To dominate his mother. To see if he can get away with it. Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default. It's easy. It's peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.

set your house in order

This kind of oversimplification and falsification is particularly typical of ideologues. They adopt a single axiom: government is bad, immigration is bad, capitalism is bad, patriarchy is bad. Then they filter and screen their experiences and insist ever more narrowly that everything can be explained by that axiom. They believe, narcissistically, underneath all that bad theory, that the world could be put right, if only they held the controls.

Question: Who are you—or, at least, who could you be? Answer: Part of the eternal force that constantly confronts the terrible unknown, voluntarily; part of the eternal force that transcends naivete and becomes dangerous enough, in a controlled manner, to understand evil and beard it in its lair; and part of the eternal force that faces chaos and turns it into productive order, or that takes order that has become too restrictive, reduces it to chaos, and renders it productive once again.

If you say no, early in the cycle of oppression, and you mean what you say (which means you state your refusal in no uncertain terms and stand behind it), then the scope for oppression on the part of the oppressor will remain properly bounded and limited.

But order is sometimes tyranny and stultification, as well, when the demand for certainty and uniformity and purity becomes too one-sided.

people need ordering principles,

Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny , they're not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance, if the circumstances around them suck they change them.

You must take immediate of control the sale. 2 You must engage in massive intelligence gathering, while you simultaneously build massive rapport with your prospect. 3 You must smoothly transition into a Straight Line presentation, so you can begin the process of building absolute certainty for each of the Three Tens.

However, as powerful as the Straight Line System is, it completely breaks down in the absence of one crucial element, which is: You need to take immediate control of the sale.

and stressing your consonants so that your words have intensity to them. It's like you're talking with your fists clenched, and there's an active volcano inside you ready to erupt at any second—but of course it doesn't, because you're an expert who's in total control.

promise you that it's not. In fact, once you become even reasonably proficient with the Straight Line System, you'll be able to take any prospect, regardless of where they started off on the certainty scale, and move them to higher and higher levels of certainty with remarkable ease. It will simply be a matter of taking immediate control of the sale, and then moving your prospect, step by step, down the straight

knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.

What Starker Leopold was trying to teach Graber was not to master and control everything but, instead, to remember that because human hands were always unintentionally doing something to nature, they ought to do something carefully planned as well.

Break their hearts and take their money , they have no power.

Por qué los «salvadores» siempre «liberaban» según sus creencias y circunstancias, aunque los «salvados y liberados» no lo quisieran?

Navidad. No le gustaba la Navidad. Se despertaban en él demasiados recuerdos y demasiadas sensaciones que no podía controlar.

Todo el que crea un monstruo, tarde o temprano ha de destruirlo, o el monstruo le destruye a él.

Não decretou dr. Teodoro lei e controle de imediato e com severidade; nem sequer falou em tal. Sendo homem tranqüilo e suspicaz, de educação cutuba, nada sabia impor e não impunha; no entanto tudo obtinha sem estardalhaço, sem que os demais se sentissem violentados; um fode-mansinho o nosso caro farmacêutico.

Dona Flor via o torso forte do esposo sob o pijama, as largas omoplatas, o cangote rijo, os músculos do braço. Mordendo os lábios, tratou de desviar o pensamento, pois sendo segunda-feira não era dia dessas coisas. Sistemático, o doutor mantinha nisso e em tudo a mais perfeita ordem.

Sem dinheiro, não se fazia nada. Ou nós, viciados nele, não sabíamos fazer nada sem ele.

Quienes tienen un modo autoritario de entender la dirección de un grupo de trabajo piensan que el respeto, la libertad y un trato amable encierran el peligro de ablandar a la tropa. Pero los buenos líderes y los buenos profesionales deben saber que la confianza no elude el control.

El liderazgo tiene dos maneras extremas de ejercer su poder: inspirando miedo o inspirando afecto.

Me propongo contar, pues, la trama del siglo. De mi siglo. Mi versión sobre cómo el azar ha gobernado al mundo y sobre cómo los hombres de ciencia tratamos en vano de domesticar su furia.