Quotes about Control

If an EHM is completely successful, the loans are so large that the debtor is forced to default on its payments after a few years. When this happens, then like the Mafia we demand our pound of flesh. This often includes one or more of the following: control over United Nations votes, the installation of military bases, or access to precious resources such as oil or the Panama Canal. Of course, the debtor still owes us the money—and another country is added to our global empire.

During the toughest challenges in my life I've come to most appreciate all Coach Wooden means to me. The things he would say—"Don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't whine, don't complain, don't make excuses; worry about the things you can control, and not the things you can't"—were endless. Yet there is an appropriate one for every situation. The real

I never dreamed about winning a national championship. What I was dreaming about was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be. My thoughts were directed toward preparation, our journey, not the results of the effort. That would simply have shifted my attention to the wrong area, hoping for something out of my control.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.