Control Quotes

"You either play the game or let the game play you." "Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will." "Habit is the best of all servants, or the worst of all masters." "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it" "When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us." "It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly." "I don’t want chumps, I don’t want pushovers, and if you’re a chump and a pushover, I will run over you." "Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." "Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities." "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket." "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." "The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies" "I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control." "The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses" "In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will" "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" "Throughout my career, I've come to realize that I cannot control the perception of others, only my actions." "We have the ability to shape our own destiny"