Dawn Steel Quotes

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

I used to have a short temper. I still have one and when I lose it, it's bad. I think it comes from what you see when you're young. Sometimes it builds from being scared as well. Once you lose it once, you find comfort in losing your temper. It becomes embedded in you.

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

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

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

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

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards, and embarrassed, and guilty. It's scary to lose control of yourself.

I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years - I think you can allow me that at least.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'