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“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.”
― H. James Harrington

“I realize the simple truth is that power isn’t control at all- power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.”
― Ruth Cardello, Maid for the Billionaire

“My sister said Mary Elizabeth is suffering from low self-esteem, but I told her that she said the same thing about Sam back in November when she started dating Craig, and Sam is completely different. Everything can't be low self-esteem, can it? My sister tried to clarify things. She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a "superior position" that she wouldn't need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance â€� that is, moderation â€� is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself â€� which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue.”
― Anne Brontë

“You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?”
― Richard Russo, Empire Falls

“Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide for yourselves exactly what you want. It fills in the bits like a mischievous mistress.”
― steven redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality

“Don't be a creation of circumstances, create your dreams, take full control of your destiny.”
― steven redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality

“The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If happiness were money I wouldn't want to win the lottery. I want to accomplish it, urn it as John Houseman would say. I want it to be an achievement because I want to be in control of my life. I don't want things to happen to me, I want them to happen because of me. Power I want. I want to feel the way I do when I stretch a new canvas and I want to feel that way all the time. the blank canvas fills me with the power of imminent creation. I'm its god an it always bends to my will and when I'm done I know, inside, that it's markedly better than what almost all of my similarly-engaged others can achieve. That's happiness.”
― Sergio De La Pava

“Love. It seemed impossible that she could love him, but she was so deep in him there was really nowhere to go but further in. So this is what love was. Uncontrollable. Consuming. But so irresistible you wanted to be consumed.”
― Dianna Hardy, The Demon Bride

“No, I wanted to say, he didn't cut off her hands because he didn't have to, he had cut them off long before, with years of keeping all authority in his own palms, all the rules and all the power and all the answers emanating from him and no one else. And if you don't understand that, if you've never been in such a family, then you can't know the way the mind shackles itself and amputates its own limbs so adeptly that you never think to miss them, never think that you had anything so obscene as choice.”
― Carolina De Robertis, Perla

“Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that's not freedom! That's control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understands freedom to be the freedom to take risks, the freedom to do something bad or appear foolish. To not recognize that difference is a pretty big thing. [...]
"It's like with improv," Misha said. "True improv is about surprising yourself--but most people won't improvise truthfully. They're afraid. What they do is pull from their bag of tricks. They take what they already know how to do and apply it to the present situation. But that's cheating! And cheating's bad for an artist. It's bad in life--but it's really bad in art." -p.20-1, How Should A Person Be”
― Sheila Heti

“The mind is powerful, and you have more control than you think.”
― Scott D. Lewis, The Hypnosis Treatment Option: Proven Solutions for Pain, Insomnia, Stress, Obesity, and Other Common Health Problems

“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare?”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...”
― John Geddes A Familiar Rain

“We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress.”
― Lionel Suggs

“No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.”
― Michael D. O'Brien, A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child's Mind

“You can't change the past, only your perception of it; but you can control the future.”
― steven redhead

“And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

“You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.”
― Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden

“Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires.”
― steven redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality

“The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way.

Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“It all fell away then â€� the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would never be easy to find
solitude . . . to find herself. Not in this city, where appearances were everything; where emptiness filled luxurious landscapes till there was nothing but hollow splendor�
She hated the pretense.
More than hatred, she was frightened of it.”
― Umair Naeem, Drowning Shadows

“Damn the way he had control over me.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow

“Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future.”
― Steven Redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality

“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“You are the creator of your own perceived reality. Don't be a creation of circumstances. Always take full control of your destiny.”
― Steven Redhead, Keys to the Laws of Creation

“When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.”
― steven redhead, The Solution

“Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.”
― Jan Valtin, Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin

“...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain