Quotes About Emotional Regulation

#1. Psychopaths, skillful as they are at manipulating others, have trouble with emotional regulation and generally screw up at either extreme: theatrical histrionics or cold stoicism.

Jonathan Kellerman

#2. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Phillips Brooks

#3. Well everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face. So that's how I deal with all these ground fighters like everyone else. I hit 'em in the head and there goes your F**king black belt.

Mark Hunt

#4. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

William Shenstone

#5. Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace.

Margaret Thatcher

#6. I was listening to the radio the other day in California and one of our songs came on and I jumped because I couldn't find my microphone. Now that's damage.

Henry Rollins

#7. The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.

Amy Chua

#8. [Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

Fran Lebowitz

#9. I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Anais Nin

#10. Wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment.

Julian Barnes

#11. I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. If marriage is centrally an emotional union, rather than one inherently ordered to family life, it becomes much harder to show why the state should concern itself with marriage any more than with friendship. Why involve the state in what amounts to the legal regulation of tenderness?

Sherif Girgis

#13. the god does not speak to those who have no time to listen.

Mary Stewart

#14. As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.

Domhnall Gleeson

#15. If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.

Miya Yamanouchi