More quotations tagged with “control”
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
—Michael Winner
Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
—Henri J. M. Nouwen
I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
—Julian Barnes in The Sense of an Ending
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
—Erich Fromm