Fred Willard Quotes

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

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

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

The ego is not master in its own house.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.

I used to be a bit of a show-off at school, but I've calmed down now and learnt to censor myself.

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.

There's definitely times when I'm tempted to look at the future, like any of us are. I'd be lying if that wasn't the case. But you have to reel back in and stay in the present.

Players need to control their emotions as much as possible.

A lot of people do impulsive things. They just go with their moves. I used to do that. Once I was able to control my mind, I was able to control my actions.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.

I despise people who can't control themselves.