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 More about this quote Tags: power memory thought control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: patience present trust taste discipline control waiting live conflict tomorrow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. —Michael Winner More about this quote Tags: effort control team Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's always been and always will be the same in the world: the horse does the work, and the coachman is tipped. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: power work animals control enslavement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does. —Marcelene Cox More about this quote Tags: children control thriving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. —Frank Lloyd Wright More about this quote Tags: people wealth possessions control object Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: politics power power winning control victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't let them tame you! —Isadora Duncan More about this quote Tags: control timidity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our noses too, and our eyes and ears, are political instruments, protesters. An aesthetic response is a political action. . . . We know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended. Standing for these moments — and these moments occur each day, within every airless office building, seated in each crippling chair, inundated by senseless noise and fattened on industrial food — standing for our responses, these aesthetic reverberations of truth in the soul, may be the primary civic act of the citizen, the origin of caution and of the precautionary principle itself, with its warnings to stop, look, and listen. —James Hillman More about this quote Tags: truth politics action food control caution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them. —Philippa Carr More about this quote Tags: war power poverty suffering consequences control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will. —Greg McKeown More about this quote Tags: life power control priorities Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, then you must make it. —Charles Buxton More about this quote Tags: time control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired; you quit when the gorilla is tired. —Robert Strauss More about this quote Tags: analogy control fatigue Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master. —David Foster Wallace More about this quote Tags: learning choice teaching thinking control consciousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape. —Becca Fitzpatrick in Silence More about this quote Tags: escape heart control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email