"Because our culture so highly values... an illusion of self-control and control of circumstance, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems more changeable, less restrained and less controllable, more open to outside influence, than we imagine our own to be".
"Can't deal with reality, living in a fallacy, pop another pill – self control, mind control," say Dub War.
We found that RA males have much lower scores in well-being and self-control than control males.
Just think about proving to everyone you have the will power and self control to actually control and think about what comes out of your mouth.
"There must be mastery, somewhere, and if there is no self-control and self-mastery, the control and the mastery will ultimately be imposed from without".
The free abandon so necessary to a full sexual relationship is, in the eyes of many, an unseemly loss of self-control, and self-control is something one is urged to maintain from infancy onward.
He started telling himself inside his head that he had to have self-control, he had to have self-control, and when he felt like talking non-stop in class, or raising his hand for the fourth time, or getting up out of his seat when he wasn't supposed to, he didn't.
Some of these draw a direct link between self-control and perceptions of control.
To investigate the aftereffects of anticipating future self-control and motivation on self-control strength depletion patterns.
In the first round, he asks about the unity of virtues, arguing for the unity of justice and piety, of wisdom and self-control, and of self-control and justice (328d-334c).
Conclusion: The results indicate that both self-control and parental control should be considered in designing preventative measures against emotional eating in adolescents.
