"Those who would take over the earth..." - Quote by Lao Tzu
Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.
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More on Control
“Your reputation is none of your business.”
“Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”
“For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.”
More on Failure
“The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.”
“I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.”
“That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.”