Luol Deng Quotes

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

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.

Even when I was young, I never felt extreme feelings.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

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

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

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

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

You can feel up, you can feel down, and you have to keep your emotions kind of somewhere to be focused on the next ball.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

There's so much to benefit from being able to control your mind in certain situations and it just keeps you even-keel all the time when things are going well and when they're not. That's one thing that I've always had a bit of a tough time doing. When I get up, I get excited. When I'm down, I get pretty frustrated.

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you’ll let it affect you

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

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.