Emotional Quotes

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.

I was born an emotional tampon in a cauldron of dysfunction.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Here's something you never hear: Now that I've worked through all my emotional issues, I'm free to dedicate my life to ventriloquism!

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.

I’m just trying to get people to understand horses. You have to be consistent and logical, use your brain, and not be emotional and not lose your temper.

The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.

I am not an emotional type of guy. But I follow my emotions more than my logic.

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

I get a lot of satisfaction from crafting and shaping mixes. I love finding the right balance, the right dynamic. It's an emotional interaction with the music.

When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.

Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission–which is emotional connection.

I wish emotional bruises healed like physical ones.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.

True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage.