Lawrence Pearsall Jacks Quotes

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

Democracy substitutes self-restraint for external restraint. It is more difficult to maintain than to achieve.

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.

If you can't control everything, you can't control anything, not really.

I don't think I get that upset over things.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

That daydreaming seemed important at the time, but when I asked my teacher Katagiri Roshi about it, he said, "Oh, it's just laziness. Get to work." But as for discipline, I don't even use that word. I think more about passion or love. What I've really learned is the way the mind moves, and how the mind works. Rather than discipline, I know how to seduce my mind.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.

In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!