Johanna Konta Quotes

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

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.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

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.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

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

I don't put much pressure on myself, because I'm strong mentally.

When I get scored on or something doesn't go my way, I think of what I'm able to do and I'm reminded that I'm capable of doing it. I'm honest about myself - I know I'm not going to stop everything, so I don't try for perfection. I'm going to try to get there, but I know I'll never be perfect. I think that helps me to deal with everything.

I discovered I'm a lot more patient than I thought I'd be. It takes a lot to shake me.

Even if sometimes I'm not happy with the way I'm playing the game before, during the changeover I have to stay calm. Otherwise the next game will be worse.

I just try to stay cool, calm and collected.

I can always take a moment when things are going well, when pressure might build, to think: 'You've had a lot worse than this.'

Some stuff happened outside of tennis, and it made me realize that you just have to think about yourself, just focus on yourself, and don't worry too much about the other things because they can change very fast from positive to negative.

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

Have a good sense of perspective and be able to snap yourself out of bad moods, as we often wind ourselves up about the silliest things.

I don't really let the pressure get to me.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

I don't torture myself.