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“Don't lose your temper; use it.”

Use Loses Anger Temper

Author:Dolly Parton

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”

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Author:Washington Irving

“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever." [Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.”

Knows Said Use Anger Warm Fuel Indignation Freezing Burn Out

Book:Irving Stone, three complete novels

Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels

“I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.”

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Author:Alan Alda

“The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.”

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Author:Rene Descartes

“He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.”

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Book:Treadmill to Oblivion

Source: Treadmill to Oblivion

“It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.”

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Author:Vanilla Ice

“Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.”

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Book:The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

“You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.”

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Author:John J. Geddes

“There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.”

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.”

Use Walks Anger Hot Coal

Book:The Fixer

Source: The Fixer