Kofi Annan Quotes

Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will provoke me - I know he will provoke me! And there are times when I simply refuse to be provoked. And the other times you have to use that superior knowledge to carry on at work without distraction, and don't allow yourself to be distracted. I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes.

Some people have bigger egos than others. You have to take a lot of abuse, and take it in and not respond, because you don't want conflicts on the movie, you don't want to start screaming at people even when they treat you - even when they're not behaving properly, because you want them to do their job, and keep on doing it.

Take your job seriously, BUT don't take their complaints personally. If you take it personally you'll get upset and lose your edge. If you take it too personally, you'll lose your edge and your job. If you take it seriously -- it's you with them. If you take it personally, it's you against them. What steps can you take to ensure keeping your cool?

You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

It took me to be 33 to start to know how to fight.

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

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

I learned to listen as a good guy, how to fight back without throwing away the heat, and how to fight back while I was still hurting. That part would always keep you in the game and keep you in the match.

I'm a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.

I will not try to escape fights if someone tries to poke or trigger me.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.

My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.