Emotion Management Quotes

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

Being vice-captain at Chelsea, I've learned to manage my emotions better this season and have matured massively, but part of that is embracing those feelings of disappointment rather than suppressing them and pretending everything is OK.

You can't let emotions get involved with what the common goal is: to win. At the end of the day, that's what it's all about.

Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor

For elites, the politics of governing is seen as a continual struggle to manage public emotions so that they do not overwhelm sound public policy.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so that an individual can try to figure out why he's feeling what he's feeling. If the particular feeling makes no sense—if the amygdala is simply responding to a loss frame, for example—then it can be discounted. The prefrontal cortex can deliberately choose to ignore the emotional brain.

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.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

Keeping my emotions in check translates to me playing a lot better.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.

In anything you do, if you don't let your emotion take over you, you can make the better decisions.

There are certain exercises that you can do to let go of the emotions you create when you play a certain role. Breathing techniques.