Stuart Wilde Quotes

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

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

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

You learn to not take things personally and to just let it roll off of you.

To a certain extent, I think I've tried to train myself to not dive too deep into things or get my hopes too way up, because the fear of disappointment and whatnot is only natural.

Some people can vent their anger, take a breath, and let it go, but I wasn't one of them.

I see something that I don't like, I prefer not to participate and say, 'Look, I'll leave you to it, I wish you the best, a lot of luck and I support you, but I don't want to be there.'

I take pride in the fact that I can walk away from things. My willingness to walk away has protected me, I realize that now. Being able to walk away from sessions, from poetry, from dreams of being a poetry professor.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

Some people have bigger egos than others. You have to take a lot of abuse, and take it in and not respond, because you don't want conflicts on the movie, you don't want to start screaming at people even when they treat you - even when they're not behaving properly, because you want them to do their job, and keep on doing it.

We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

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

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

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

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.