Quotes about Control

The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course— its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.

This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.

I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it. II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it. But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.

By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

The absolute monopoly of the soil, the gripping and the strangling of the populace by landlords, is a purely Protestant development.

Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

With moderate physical training, you can control anything in your body. You don't have to be an athlete to do it, and this isn't just about people with disabilities - it's about everyone. You just have to have the willpower, the mindset, and the desire to want to better yourself.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

I just tried to find a fine line between muscling in and staying relaxed.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

I cannot control what people think. But I can control myself and my aim, and my head is focused on trying to win trophies.

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.