All Quotes By Tag: Control
“Until you take charge of every minute of your day, you will still be going about thinking some people are better than you”
“If your time is under the control of your phone, your boss, parents, family, friends or job, that is what owns your life”
“For you to be able to convert your time, you must first be able to fight for time”
“The more control you have over your time, the more you have to be channeled into whatever you want to become”
“I take care of the future by controlling the past.”
“Think of every moment as now or never. If not now, when? When you be ready to start. You can’t build a future with “later”. Take control of your life and live now.”
“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.”
“Emotions are like waves rising on the ocean of the ind. Waves are part of the ocean, but not the ocean itself. Even an ocean whose surface is wracked by fierce wind and rain contains great calm in its depth. In the same way, a deep,bright seat of the mind lies beyond our stormy emotions.”
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“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”
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“With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.”
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.”
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“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.”
“Faith is not whittling God down to a size that I can comprehend. Rather, it’s whittling my need to control down to a size that God can intersect.”
“I have reconciled myself to our new lives. Our new fate, as Talis would say. As if fate were a merging, shifting thing. As if it were controlled by something other than ourselves.”
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