Internal Control Quotes

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

The only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint.

We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

Who is to guard the guards themselves?

The pressure... It's not real unless you let it be real.

I can't worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.

I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.

I am my own policeman.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.