Alain de Botton Quotes

I don't think anyone on the planet doesn't get angry!

How do I handle it? I would say more times than not, if I have a bad shot, I just get angry and almost like kill the next one. And it usually works I would say 9 times out of 10.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

When I'm angry, like, if someone gets me really upset, whatever comes into my head, I scream it.

I don't think I get angry.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

It's wrong for kids to be angry about something inanimate.

I don't get mad too much.

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

You have to control your anger - you can't be a baby when you lose.

I don't think I get that upset over things.

I really don't get angry.

I have a bit of a temper.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.