Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

I'm mostly a quiet person by nature and don't like letting my emotions come out on the field.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

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

It is not in my character to be so emotional.

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

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

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

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

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

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.

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

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.