Steven Pinker Quotes

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

I don't get mad too much.

I was never the person to try and be the centre of attention or to talk a lot. I was always the person who, if you say something, I'd just punch you in your face. For real.

I have a bit of a temper.

It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!

I've always been a dominant and violent person.

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today.

I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

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

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.

I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.