Rainbow Rowell Quotes

When I was young, you get into the point where you want to throw everything hard. And it looks good, it feels good... You get to the point, though, where it's not realistic.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

I mean, if you want to hurt yourself, go ahead. It's like, if you want to jack off, go ahead, just don't 'spoo' on a public bus or something . Do whatever you want to do. Just don't get it in somebody else's face.

I like acting impulsively, but I'm also extremely thoughtful about what I do. So, it's not like someone would say 'Don't do something,' and I'd automatically go, 'I'm gonna do it anyway.'

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

There's times where I get emotionally hijacked, then I'll try and force something and do something.

The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.

I overheard one of my friends say, 'If Amari scores, I bet he's real happy and he'll get real excited.' I just so happened to score, and since I heard him say that, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not going to get really excited.' And for some reason, that felt like the right thing to do. I been the same way since.

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.

I probably need to hold my emotions in check a little more, but that's just part of my wiring, too.

On an odd occasion, you'll still find me shouting at referees when I've become increasingly frustrated, but I've tried to control my temper.

When you react to things, that's when you get into trouble and it's tough to completely control a split-second reaction.

I don't react and think off emotions - that gets you in a bad situation.

But it's no good letting your emotions get the better of you.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

I was never a bad guy, never got in trouble. It's just that I played with anger and I was aggressive or I really never smiled.

As a kid, my temper was on Cloud 10. Anything you say, I would just jump on you, you know?

If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.

A lot of people do impulsive things. They just go with their moves. I used to do that. Once I was able to control my mind, I was able to control my actions.

You can't control yourself in a game while people are screaming at you, teammates, referees trying to get in the middle. So you end up doing things without thinking.

I'm not as careful as I look, which is why I choose not to do social media. It's really because I don't trust myself. I'm also very easily influenced by my feelings and will impulsively act on my emotions, which is another reason why I don't do social media.

Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.