Alexander Lowen Quotes

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

I've learned that showing your emotions can work against you and that you need to have a business-like attitude to observe things with a cool head.

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.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.

But it's no good letting your emotions get the better of you.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.