Vitalik Buterin Quotes

Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

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.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

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

If I'm mad or showing my frustration, the whole team's gonna be like that, techs, and people are going to go down. So I just try to keep the even keel. That's why I don't get too high or too low. I've been playing like that my whole life. It's just natural for me.

I just feel like I've been in a lot of high-pressure situations, and I think I'm able to stay poised in those situations.

I've always been able to stay calm in high-pressure situations.

Of course, fighting is one of the most emotional things that you can possibly do. You have to constantly deal with your emotions, especially myself. I have so many that that's where I get my energy from. But it's a matter of controlling them, and yeah, I just don't let nothing affect me.

I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

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

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

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 don't throw things or yell.

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.