Brad Stevens Quotes

Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

I built a career out of knowing what I don't know.

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.

I'm now much more aware of my mental state. I have a lot more control over it and can choose how I feel.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

I try not to be overly analytical.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.

I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things.

I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.

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.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?