Impulsive Reactions Quotes

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.

My dad was very explosive, God rest his soul. He could fly off the handle like no one I've ever known, and I have definitely got that in my personality: that ability to sort of smash the house up and then say, 'Put the kettle on,' to have that kind of attitude of, 'Well, I'm OK now, so everybody else has got to be OK.'

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

If someone leaves me a bad review, I briefly fantasize about pushing them down a well.

It's really easy to catastrophise everything. I'd like to think as I've gotten older, I do a bit better with that.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.

I think spontaneous and free reactions are the most natural.

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.

Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring new wine into them. Our tendency is to start pouring the wine into skins that will only burst.