Control Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I wish my life has a CONTROL Z function.

— Anonymous

“It takes a huge investment in introspection to learn that the thirty or more hours spent “studying” the news last month neither had any…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really…

— Dana Plato

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

— Jean Piaget

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom…

— Jonathan Tropper

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

— Baruch Spinoza

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

— Gene Wolfe

Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I…

— Edward Snowden

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music…

— Pat Metheny

I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it…

— Laura Regan

[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left…

— Abul A'la Maududi

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp