Demetri Martin Quotes

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

As I got older I learned how to control my temper a little more. Boxing helped me a lot and most definitely when I had my first child it helped me tremendously.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.

Kids are always infatuated with the action in martial arts films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

He who angers you conquers you.

I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.