Bruce Cockburn Quotes

Once you tie anger and ego together then you're a monster, at least a latent one. So you have to be able to separate those things before you are going to be able to do anything useful with your anger.

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.

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

To avoid having bad things happen, learning to manage your anger and to actually share how you really feel about something, and get it behind you is one of the most important aspects of growing up.

In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.

Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.

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

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

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.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I'm too mature to be angry.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

I don't really get angry any more.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

Fighting helped me learn that I can't let my emotions take over.

I have made a few mistakes with my temper, I know. But I have learned from that.

I used to be afraid of my temper, but it turns out I don't really have one.

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.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.