Quotes about Control

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.

The weird thing for me is I'm sitting there in the '80s writing about the Mutant Control Act and here we are in the second decade of the 21st century with the Patriot Act, listening to presidential candidates talk about building walls to keep people out: who's acceptable and who isn't. It's very creepy.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.