Amor Towles Quotes

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

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.

I react emotionally to everything!

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

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

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

It's wrong for kids to be angry about something inanimate.

I used to be a bit of a show-off at school, but I've calmed down now and learnt to censor myself.

There's times where I get emotionally hijacked, then I'll try and force something and do something.

It is not in my character to be so emotional.

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.

I don't get emotional.

I used to be afraid of my temper, but it turns out I don't really have one.

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.

Sometimes I get emotional. I let my emotions get the best of me.

I'm almost completely ruled by my emotions.