John Rzeznik Quotes

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

We run things, things don't run we.

I'm not anybody's puppet.

I don't like feeling out of control. I have to feel like I'm in control of my body.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

I only have control over what I do.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

I like to be controlled, but that doesn't mean controlled like a dog.

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

It makes it a lot easier when you can make your own decisions.

Sometimes I drive, and sometimes I'm driven.

We can only control what we can control.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own

When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.

If someone throws you the ball, you don't have to catch it.