Exerting Control Quotes

#1. We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

Wilson Greatbatch

#2. Unlike cognitive load, ego depletion is at least in part a loss of motivation. After exerting self-control in one task, you do not feel like making an effort in another, although you could do it if you really had to. In

Daniel Kahneman

#3. Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Juvenal

#4. If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

E. M. Forster

#5. All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Assuming that everything is your fault is a shortcut for finding those areas where you have control, and opening the door to exerting that control for positive change.

Tynan

#7. I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

Mae Jemison

#8. But as fast as geography is coming under our control, the clock is exerting more and more tyranny over us.

Pico Iyer

#9. Even though we don't always realize it, as the day goes on, we have increased difficulty exerting self-control and focusing on our work. As self-control wears out, we feel tired and find tasks to be more difficult, and our mood sours.

Travis Bradberry

#10. I'd be at work, where people respected my opinions," said Nick. "And then I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot. I'd pack the dishwasher the wrong way. I'd pick the wrong clothes for the children. I stopped offering to help. It wasn't worth the criticism.

Liane Moriarty

#11. I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

Marilyn Monroe

#12. From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

Neil Gaiman

#13. What do I say to a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off?

Gillian Flynn

#14. Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.

Dolores LaChapelle

#15. My private life ... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.

Alison Lohman

#16. My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.

Rachel Naomi Remen