Janet McTeer Quotes

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

But you're not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren't. You don't say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.

I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. I can't diffuse situations.

There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.

Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In other words, if we can learn to think about other people in a more positive and realistic way, it will be far easier to resolve conflicts and develop rewarding personal and professional relationships.

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.

Novice leaders often respond dramatically to provocations.