2,640 Quotes About Control

You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.

Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.

You see, a story is not just a thing told to a child before sleep. A story is control.

Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.

It's true,' Vanya now, 'look at the forms of capitalist expression. Pornographies: pornographies of love, erotic love, Christian love, boy-and-his-dog, pornographies of sunsets, pornographies of killing, and pornographies of deduction--ahh, that sigh when we guess the murderer--all these novels, these films and songs they lull us with, they're approaches more comfortable and less so, to that Absolute Comfort.' A pause to allow Rudi a quick and sour grin. 'The self-induced orgasm.

Seek pleasure in work itself as in result you have no control.

The magic that confounds them is humanity. The naturally occurring, slow acting, unpredictably potent product of conscious minds connecting. These madmen want to synthesise love. They want to manufacture it, weaponise it, and use it to control people. It’s such a ludicrous scheme it would be funny if they weren’t trampling the world in pursuit of it.

Taming attachment,does not mean becoming cold and disinterested. On the contrary, it means learning to have a composed control over our mind through understanding

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.