For me, I'm a bit of a control freak.
When I'm tough on myself, I'm never satisfied.
They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
I am a perfectionist. It has always been this way.
I'm too much of a control freak.
For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.
I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.
A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.
if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.
The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.
If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.
Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
I'm all or nothing. I'm either having fresh vegetables, or I'm eating fried fish.
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.
Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.
