Indra Nooyi Quotes

Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there's more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I don't think I get angry.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.

I hate people.

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

I was once a fairly angry person.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

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

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

I don't really get angry any more.