Top 68 Control Illusion Quotes
#1. Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.
Truth Devour
#2. Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism
and it's very unhealthy. It does terrible things to our bodies. And there are much better ways to control our behavior than that rather extraordinary use of guilt.
Ted Bundy
#3. The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of if. But even then it is difficult, once we think we see a pattern, we do not easily let go of our perception.
Leonard Mlodinow
#4. Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.
Marsha M. Linehan
#5. To know a thing does not enable us, always, to prevent its happening, but after all the things that we know we do hold, if not in our hands, at any rate in our minds, where we can dispose of them as we choose, which gives us the illusion of a sort of power to control them.
Marcel Proust
#6. People who do affirmations will have the sensation that
they are causing the environment to conform to their will.
This is an immensely enjoyable feeling because the illusion
of control is one of the best illusions you can have.
Scott Adams
#7. Never mistake complacence for the illusion of control. She is like wildfire, at once utterly beguiling and wholly untameable.
Lisa Mantchev
#8. Control never lasted. Eventually the illusion of time, the pull of gravity, and catastrophic events reminded everyone of their mortality and their utter insignificance in the great big world. Life was nothing more than one lone blink. Here today. Gone tomorrow.
Jewel E. Ann
#9. If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.
Diane Lane
#10. If you live long enough, you learn time is an illusion created by men who fear death. The clocks and watches worshipped by those who deny the inevitable. There is power in acknowledging we are not the ones in control.
Amber Kizer
#11. Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do.
Anna Quindlen
#12. Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control; you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.
Susan Meissner
#13. The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break.
Kevin Brockmeier
#14. ...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.
Jordan Castillo Price
#15. Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally generated. We wander around cloaked in an illusion of vulnerability, mis-armed with an arrogance of free will and rationality.
Philip Zimbardo
#16. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
Christina Baker Kline
#17. Control is merely an illusion we construct to cope with the chaos that is reality.
Fred Bubbers
#18. Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.
Ben Parr
#19. Knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.
Diana Gabaldon
#20. Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's just an illusion that one has control over one's life.
Shekhar Kapur
#21. We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.
Meghan O'Rourke
#22. He might not have control of this situation, but the illusion of control was more pressing than its reality.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#23. The two of you are getting downright chatty, aren't you, Ms. Lane? When did you last see him? what else did he tell you?
I'm asking the questions tonight.
If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.
Karen Marie Moning
#24. When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.
Deepak Chopra
#25. If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
Brian Andreas
#26. We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control.
Russell Eric Dobda
#27. If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You're just telling yourself the story of how it doesn't.
Byron Katie
#28. The distance of the fighting created the illusion of normalcy, but the new rules resulted in an attitude shift that did not suit the Administration's plans. They were going for structure, control, for panic that produced submission - what
Tea Obreht
#29. Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#31. Spectacle is grounded in the illusion of control.
Kirsty Logan
#32. Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.
Yasmin Mogahed
#33. Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
David Sedaris
#34. You like to claim that you're in charge of the world, but it's as if the world hasn't noticed and it does whatever it pleases in spite of you. You claim the sky is blue, but almost on a daily basis it betrays you.
Trish Mercer
#35. I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
Amy Tan
#36. Normality is an illusion, created by a conservative culture to control behaviour
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#37. Control is only an illusion to calm yourself into believing things will go a certain way. give up control, let life lead and you will find a rich discovery.
Jennifer Probst
#38. Society is a destructive illusion of control, nothing more. And
James Rollins
#39. Resilience Practicing Self-Care To Avoid Burnout The Illusion of Control Patience and Perspective Resilience In The Face
Sharon Salzberg
#40. Control is an illusion - a fact you will learn very fast if you become ill, or have things fall apart in some other way. When we understand vulnerability and suffering as an essential part of being human, our individual fate can be easier to manage.
Harriet Lerner
#42. When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your original-self; a self uncorrupted by the world's false lessons of fear and control.
Bryant H. McGill
#43. Illusions only control you when you think they are real.
David Icke
#44. Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.
Juan Gabriel
#45. The greatest triumph of Shaytan is the illusion that you are in control. He lurks on the forking paths, lying in wait for those who become overconfident and lose their way.
G. Willow Wilson
#46. Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective
Farley Maglaya
#47. Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.
Richard J. Foster
#48. You only control 2 things in life: where you spend your heartbeats & the attitude in which you spend them. All else is an illusion.
James Andrew Beck
#49. Perfection is an illusion. Allow yourself room to make mistakes and permission to be happy regardless of outcome.
Dawn Gluskin
#50. In that moment, I welcomed back the light and let go of the fear, the feelings of unworthiness, the past, the loss, the wallowing, the grief and the anger. I let go of the illusion of control in our losses, of our afflictions.
Ariana Carruth
#51. You should start your life with the illusion that you are completely in control of what you do. You should finish life with the recognition that, all in all, you got better than you deserved.
David Brooks
#52. It is not a case of you being inferior when you bow at your Dom's feet. The reality is your Dom only has the illusion of power. You are the one in control. You decide how far the scene will go. It is your gift to him or her.
Red Phoenix
#53. When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.
Bryant McGill
#54. Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!
Greg Smith
#55. It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.
Rachel Caine
#56. Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.
Sharon Salzberg
#57. Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.
Donna Lynn Hope
#58. Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion.
Ilchi Lee
#59. To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real?
Jay Woodman
#60. If she'd learned anything from her father, it was that composure was control. Even if it was just an illusion.
Victoria Schwab
#61. Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.
Oli Anderson
#62. He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
William Golding
#63. Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.
Michael Treanor
#64. [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
Clive Barker
#65. For compulsions, according to a growing body of scientific evidence, are a response to anxiety. Suffused and overwhelmed by anxiety, we grab hold of any behavior that offers relief by providing even an illusion of control.
Sharon Begley
#66. Control is an illusion. Expectations will not rule my days. Not anymore.
Renee Ahdieh
#67. I know that for every mother, there is always the possibility of three in your relationship with your daughter. You, your daughter the way she is, and your daughter the way you want her to be. I learned the hard way ten years ago that that kind of control is an illusion and a barrier.
Claire Fontaine
#68. It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion.
Harlan Coben
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