Peter Blair Henry Quotes

I am a logical person and can handle situations calmly.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

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

In anything you do, if you don't let your emotion take over you, you can make the better decisions.

I try not to be overly analytical.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

There's a human element here you start to lose when you start rattling off the best mathematical equation to get the out.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

I am very angry, and you don't need angry politicians. You need politicians with great balance.

Italians think with their heads.

When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.

I'm not an emotional fighter.