control

We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards.

Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.

The tobacco control movement provides a good model for how to achieve massive societal changes. In 1965, over 50 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. By 2010, only 23.5 percent of men and 17.9 percent of women were smoking (CDC 2011). These numbers represent one of the twentieth century__ most important public health achievements.

I'm like my cat. I run around in circles in my apartment, because the big bad outside is just too big. And scary. And outside. How do stray cats deal with all the stress of having no protection from all the air that__ going on around there, without anyone to guide and control it into timidity?

Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.

We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.

Controlling people do not like to be controlled. Controlling people do not like to have their agendas obstructed.

Control what you can, but flow with what you can__.

Attempts to control complex systems _ tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.

We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control.

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

Have you ever thought that if one thing hadn't happened, a whole set of things never would have either? Like dominoes in time, a single event kicked off an unstoppable series of changes that gained momentum and spun out of control, and nothing was ever the same again. Don't ever doubt that a mere second can change your life forever.