Control Quotes

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

He who stands on tiptoedoesn't stand firm.He who rushes aheaddoesn't go far.He who tries to shinedims his own light.He who defines himselfcan't know who he really is.He who has power over otherscan't empower himself.He who clings to his workwill create nothing that endures.

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

I made the decision I will own my own show. So never again will I ever be told what I can and can not do.

I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity.

Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more government tinkering, more meddling and more control---all of which led us to this state in the first place... We must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our government back under control and make it acceptable to the people.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers.

Play the game, never let the game play you.

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.

I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying "Open!" was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream. So there is some compulsion involved. But the dividend I get is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

There is more than one way to burn a book.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.

No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.

The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

I like control.

A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

The master understands that the universe is forever out of control

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.