583 quotes found
“A life without a plan is a life out of control.”
“There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.”
“I stayed in therapy long enough to know that nothing that happened to me was my fault. I didn't do anything to invite it or deserve it. But that just makes it worse. Maybe I don't blame myself for ...”
“I feel like I have lost all control. I am going to roll with it.”
“Firing of Energy does it faster than pumping, but the latter is under better control, and much more resource efficient”
“I want things done right, and I was convinced that if I was in the middle of every decision, tings would be done right. My management style satisfied my need for power....By relinquishing control.....”
“When I lose control, I lose my cool and I pass the point of no RTN.”
“Since my visit to the Hermitage, I had become more aware of the four figures, two women and two men, who stood around the luminous space where the father welcomed his returning son. Their way of lo...”
“He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful ...”
“And history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For,in the end,...”
“We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.”
“And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel st...”
“This is what we are like. Collectively, as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that huma...”
“There is no such thing as control of a situation. If we try to do this, it turns back on us in negativity.”
“Life is many things, but if you don't try to control it, it will take hold of you and ruin you.”
“The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.”
“But when youre in love, youre not in control of what you think or say or do. And there is nothing I love more than control, and nothing I love less than not having it. So you tell me what is a pers...”
“Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.”
“Control.... is not what we need.What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees - flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.”
“The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what th...”
