Daniel Goleman Quotes

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

My ability to be emotive and cry... I think I'm so fearful of tapping that that I won't know how to turn it off.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

The emotions will take care of themselves. You don't have to prod them along. As a matter of fact, you get in trouble when you prod them along.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

It is not in my character to be so emotional.

I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

I don't react and think off emotions - that gets you in a bad situation.