Self Regulation Quotes

• Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Confidence, Power

  "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.

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• Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

  Willem Buiter

  Self, Political, Politics

  "With Grenfell Tower, we've seen what 'ripping up red tape' really looks like" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2017.

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• Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Change, Selfish

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.20, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Gratitude, Attitude, Healing

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• The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Self, Might, Pay

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• ....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Self, Essence

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.140, Bantam

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• But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

  James Surowiecki

  Taught Us, Self, Worry

  "Bankers Gone Wild" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body's major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It's the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion.

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Compassion, Self

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Government, Self

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

  Vivian Gornick

  Self, Political, Feminism

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces. Any theory of organization must be capable of reflecting a company's many facets, its dynamism, and its basic orderliness. When company organization is reviewed, or when reorganizing a company, it must be loked upon as a whole, as a total system.

  Albert Low

  Self, Organization, Growth

  Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books

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• Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation. Tony [Blair] disagreed.

  Alastair Campbell

  Self, Media, Regulation

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.

  David Puttnam

  Self, Editors, Special

  "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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