“ What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. ”
- Simon Travaglia- Copy
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“ Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barely possible. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness. ”
- George Holbrook Jackson- Copy
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“ Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
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“ For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity. We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
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“ The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers. ”
- joss whedon- Copy
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“ Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes. ”
- Abraham Harold Maslow- Copy
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“ Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values. ”
- A. Alvarez- Copy
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