Jane Smiley Quotes

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

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

It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I've always enjoyed being on a horse.

Never give a Blow in a passion. Stay till your passion is over; and let the Offenders plainly see, that you deal thus with them, out of a pure Obedience unto God, and for their true Repentance.

Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent

Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.

I rarely lose my temper anymore.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.

Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

The Ultimate expression of Humility comes when we control our senses.

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

Temperance is love in training.