All Quotes By Tag: Control
“Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.”
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“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
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“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- ‘Thou shalt make money’; the other for the employed- the slaves and underlings’- ‘Thou shalt not lose thy job.’ It was about this time that he came across The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and read about the starving carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra. The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.”
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“Anger’s like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart ’til it reaches my outer me”
“Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.”
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“Sydney, don’t leave Adrian because of me.””It’s more complicated than that,” I said automatically.”It’s really not,” she said. “From everything I’ve seen and heard, you’re just afraid. You’ve always controlled every detail of your life. When you couldn’t-like with the Alchemists-you found a way to seize back that control.””There is nothing wrong with wanting control,” I snapped.”Except that we can’t always have it, and sometimes that is a good thing. A great thing, even,” she added. “And that’s how it is with Adrian. No matter how hard you try, you aren’t going to be able to control your feelings for him. You can’t help loving him, and so you’re running away. I’m just an excuse.”
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“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
“Never let haters ‘still’ your flow. They can only do so with your permission.”
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“Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don’t think it’s any of that — it’s helpless … it’s absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers … and anger doesn’t provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever.”[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
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“Outside influences can only make me happiER or happiEST but I, alone control my HAPPINESS!”
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“To be happy, without any condition, you should seek the roots of the happiness in internal factors — unconditional happiness means to practice this phenomenon without any spatio-temporal dependency, that is, everywhere and everytime. Unlike external factors, which determine the conditional happiness in a particular spatio-temporal continuum, and which is out of personal control in such a way that a small difference in such a continuum could influence your sense of happiness, internal factors are more likely to be controlled by you, at least to some extent, therefore, are promising a chance to arrange your happiness yourself without any dependence on someone else.”
“Power isn’t controlling everything that happens to us. No one can do that, not even the richest man alive. Power is perfect control of how we react to what happen to us.”
“When you say you are in pursuit of happiness, what you essentially mean is that you are expecting your environment to always act in ways that would elicit an emotion of happiness in your heart. It is exactly as absurd as it sounds.”
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