Lillian Russell 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.

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

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

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

You're the only one that's in control of your emotions; you're the only one that's inside of you at all times. So control you however you want to. If you're not happy, that's your fault.

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

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

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.

It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home.

I try to let my highs not be too high and my lows not be too low. And I do that just because I try to control my emotions.

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

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.

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

I don't torture myself.

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

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

I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.'

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.