583 quotes found
“For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.”
“Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.”
“Every rule, every chart, every geeky statistic in a game book or module feeds into this impulse. All those details allow us to take apart existence, look at the individual parts, figure out how the...”
“For, occupied incessantly with the consideration of the limits prescribed to their power by nature, they [philosophers of former times] became so entirely convinced that nothing was at their dispos...”
“Feedback control is certainly not controlled feedback.”
“The only thing you have 100 percent control over is you.”
“Attempts to control complex systems tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.”
“Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. Thats it.”
“Prior to the monotheistic Yahweh, the gods made sense, in that they had familiar, if supra-human appetitesthey didnt just want a lamb shank, they wanted the best lamb shank, wanted to seduce all th...”
“I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]”
“But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket , the double integral has a different meaning. To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled...'Meters...”
“But in the dynamic space of the living Rocket, the double integral has a different meaning. To integrate here is to operate on a rate of change so that time falls away: change is stilled..."Meters ...”
“...this is a way of handling a fear of losing control. One way - which is perhaps not the best way - to try and regain control is to talk, talk, talk.Love Professor - to Jennifer”
“God the Father and the Son dont wish you to remain blind. It is men that put blindness upon other people for the purpose of control and manipulation.”
“Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first.”
“Some of the hardest battles we fight are those against the demons of our past, over which we have no control.”
“We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last...”
“There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't pr...”
“You cant control other peoples actions, but you can control who thinks they have control over you.”
“We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control.”
