Charles Duhigg Quotes

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

If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

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

I have to reign myself in a lot.

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

I struggle with control.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.