Deborah Copaken Kogan Quotes

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

I control my anger.

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

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

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

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.'

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.