Al Franken Quotes

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The ego is not master in its own house.

I struggle with control.

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

I don't think I have ever been out of control.

When I have the urge to get back to coaching, I lie down and wait until it passes.

I control my anger.

I used to be a bit of a show-off at school, but I've calmed down now and learnt to censor myself.

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.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, 'I don't need that pleasure right now. I'm going to ignore the craving.' Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from.