Natalie Wood Quotes

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

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.

I'm not the type of person who feels bad about things before. I choose what to do at the moment, and I have a very good reason for it; otherwise, I don't do it. If later my feelings change, I should celebrate now by being more wise, not feel bad about before.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

I don't react and think off emotions - that gets you in a bad situation.

I think one big thing for me that I need to work on is being able to separate my feelings and emotions from my matches.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response.

You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

I am a sensitive person.

I overheard one of my friends say, 'If Amari scores, I bet he's real happy and he'll get real excited.' I just so happened to score, and since I heard him say that, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not going to get really excited.' And for some reason, that felt like the right thing to do. I been the same way since.

To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.

There are times when I surprise myself with the kind of patience I have shown and then there are times when I felt that I could have handled it easily but I made a mountain out of a mole.