James Hillman Quotes

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

It takes an awful lot to get me cross.

I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes.

We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to something which is said of us or to us. We may experience it when people don't behave the way we want them to behave. Perhaps it comes when we have to wait for something longer than we expected. We might feel angry when others can't see things from our perspective. There seem to be countless possible reasons for anger….If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry.

I am not a person who is particularly patient with anyone so I am certainly not going to be patient with myself I think.

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

I don't get mad too much.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

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

It's pointless to get all huffy about stuff.

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

I really don't get angry.

I don't get angry easily, but we all have our moments.

I used to just lose my temper and tell the audience to shut up.

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do.

He doesn’t anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi) Yes, I’m more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)

I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having a sarcasm stroke. "My God! You people! You're - you're so stupid you're making my eyeballs throb. They're throbbing, dammit!

The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.