#trolling

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either. ↗

— Paul Auster

#any #being #believe #controlling #demoralizing

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#anonymous #free-speech #identity #internet #trolling

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

— John Paul Warren

#controlling #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #leadership

I look into his eyes and jump… off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring back at me. No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it feels and no matter how much I try to reason it away the truth in this moment… is that Jonathan Hayes owns me heart and soul. ↗

— Kathryn Vance-Perez

#love #truth #love

If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you. ↗

— Esther Hicks

#abraham-hicks #allow #control-freaks #control-issues #controlling

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#communist #communist party #controlling #party #represent

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#controlling #dreams #escape #free #into

I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity. ↗

— David Duval

#celebrity #controlling #crowd #enjoy #even

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#advantage #changing #common #contribute #controlling