Jennifer Weiner Quotes

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

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

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

I try to let my highs not be too high and my lows not be too low. And I do that just because I try to control my emotions.

Sometimes I get emotional. I let my emotions get the best of me.

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it's silly to let the game get to you. When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I'm breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club.

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

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

I'm good at keeping on top of my emotions and not letting them influence the fight.

You know how some people get worked up about things? That's a very human thing to do. Sometimes, I don't know - like, I feel like I don't want to waste my energy doing stuff like that. I think about this on the court, too.