John Wooden Quotes

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.

I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.

I'm not the perfect person. I'm not the most happy person. I get angry, and I get mad sometimes, but I try my best to control my thoughts. Because that flows throughout your body.

I generally have confidence in my directors.

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

I'm now much more aware of my mental state. I have a lot more control over it and can choose how I feel.

Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.

My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.

How do you make yourself not like someone?

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

Which of us can control his feelings?

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.