Quotes about Control

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

you are the single biggest influence in your life.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

Do everything in moderation, even moderation.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

Really. Been married once. No children. Amicably divorced. I dont have any tragedies in my life to give it a form and destination outside of my control. I like what I'm doing. But I could be doing something else. I've been blessed. I'm not even sure I'd change the bad things. Here comes the food.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.