Controllers Quotes

• The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

  Keith Miller

  Denial, Symptoms, Primaries

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• A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Art, Pain, Chaos

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• Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Reality, Trying

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Gun, Thug

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan".

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• And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

  Alan Rickman

  Destiny, Government, People

  "Interview: Alan Rickman on “Nobel Son”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 4.

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• Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Play, Mum, Intuitive

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• Throughout the history of game development, the game control mechanism has become more and more sophisticated, ... Perhaps those who have quit gaming or who have never played games look at the game controller and think it's too difficult to play, even before they dare to touch it.

  Satoru Iwata

  Thinking, Games, Play

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• Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.

  Pope Francis

  Grace, Agents, Spirit

  "Pope, at rally in stadium, invites charismatics to Vatican in 2017". www.catholicnews.com. July 3, 2014.

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• I'm a big believer in the Wii. I love the physicality of the Wii controller, and how you can get the feeling of throwing a bowling ball or swinging a golf club. Those are the kinds of games I really like.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Golf, Games, Feelings

  Kikizo interview, archive.videogamesdaily.com. April 2, 2009.

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• He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if you steer things enough, things will, under your control, come right. And this is the fiction of the controller: a controller thinks that they can control their life into being what they want it to be. But their life will never be what they want it to be until they stop controlling, and that is their journey.

  Julian Fellowes

  Love You, Journey, Thinking

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• . . . well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers.

  Joost Meerloo

  Mind, Facts, Wells

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• I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Inspirational, Softball, Microphones

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• I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, Views, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Thinking, Hands, Feedback

  "Q&A: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto on Mario, Zelda, Project Natal and More". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. June 12, 2009.

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• When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's exciting to me is the prospect of going from worst to first in a forward-moving transformation which is going to take groups of dispossessed black folks here and others and make us controllers of our own destiny.

  Chokwe Lumumba

  Moving, Destiny, America

  Source: bknation.org

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• Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Exercise, Community

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• I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller.

  Tim Buckley

  Thinking, Hands, Games

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• Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Summer, Dad, Father

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• In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to be managers, and controllers, and to accept things, and not to question too much.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Humanity, Too Much

  "Understanding Power". Book by Noam Chomsky, 2002.

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• I've never been able to control a first-person shooter, but as soon as I used the Revolution controller, I found it very easy to control the game. So, I think that's a genre that's particularly well suited for the controller.

  Satoru Iwata

  Thinking, Games, Able

  "Revolution Demo Tour Continues" by Mark Bozon, www.ign.com. December 15, 2005.

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• Today, if you don't understand the controller, you're not able to enjoy video games. ... We expect the Revolution controller to become the standard in video game controls.

  Satoru Iwata

  Games, Video, Wii

  "Revolution Demo Tour Continues" by Mark Bozon, www.ign.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

  Zachary Levi

  Believe, Hard Times, Hands

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things running right. We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us the illusion that we are in charge. I need to say to myself, they're not needed, hon. Just take in the buggy pleasures. Be kind to the others, grab the fleck of riverweed, notice how beautifully your bug legs scull.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Running, Struggle

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• Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

  Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

  Men, Ego, Soul

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• Hold up." Leo stepped forward, wagging his Wii controller. "Did you just call my a ship a monstrosity? I KNOW you didn't that.

  Rick Riordan

  Wii, Ships, Monstrosity

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