Christine Quinn Quotes

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

I don't really yell at people.

At home, a man is entitled to raise his voice maybe once a year, if something really gets under his skin. At work, it's different. I raise my voice all the time. Not out of malice, but to get things right. It's never personal.

First of all, I yell very little, just so you know. Maybe years ago I did more, but I yell very little.

When someone gets angry during a training session but then does their job, there's no problem; it's fine.

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

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

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

I never yell or scream. I mean, definitely not at work. I never yell at anyone I work with.

I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there's more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

I don't want to go on stage with anger. And that's why I worked so hard to look within and change myself and evolve.

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

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