#control

The best fighter is never angry. ↗

#anger-management #ataraxy #bushido #inner-peace #martial-arts

...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others... ↗

— John Geddes

#control #freedom

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#airline #belief #cash #comforting #control

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#application #control #emotions #intelligent #intelligent people

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore... ↗

— James Dashner

#humor #maze-runner #mind-control #sarcasm #sci-fi

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.] ↗

— Toni Morrison

#control #emotions #inspiration #power #writing

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#control #dispute #empowerment #intelligence #men

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. ↗

— Rumi

#intelligence #self-control #intelligence

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress ↗

— Steve Grand

#control #cybernetics #intelligence

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing ↗