Dan Millman Quotes

To respond is positive, to react is negative.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.

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

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

I am reactive.

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

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

I think that whenever you feel reactive or are being reactive as opposed to proactive, that inherently - consciously or subconsciously - creates a lot of stress.

There's times where I get emotionally hijacked, then I'll try and force something and do something.

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.

When you react to things, that's when you get into trouble and it's tough to completely control a split-second reaction.

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.

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought