I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: life writing control insight
Do not do that again," he said stiffly.
"Don't kiss me back then," I retorted.
He stared at me for what seemed like forever. "I don't give 'Zen lessons' to hear myself talk. I don't give them because you're another student. I'm doing this to teach you control."
"You're doing a great job," I said bitterly.
Tag: humor control zen-lessons
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
EpictetusTag: life happiness freedom philosophy goal control
Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.
James Arthur RayTag: control
The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.
Craig FergusonThe health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.
David LincolnTag: government control political radio health-care reform fox-news tea-party
We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.
Tiffany MadisonTag: love freedom work wit purity control chaos men-and-women practicality resistance desperation lover sensibility practical sensible prevent prevention lover-reborn practical-psychology practicality-for-intellectuals
Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.
Craig FergusonTag: writing addiction control
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
Bruce CovilleTag: tyranny censorship dictatorship control information
Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.
Robert FanneyTag: control challenge rebellion defiance dominance
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