Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shunryu Suzuki

The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.

Shannyn Sossamon

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.

Sevyn Streeter

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

Sean Young

If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.

Len Wiseman

I think that it drives from an emotional connection with everybody that pulls you through all of those events, whether it's the events or what would be more the action, or I guess the visual effects side of it. So it always starts with me from - emotionally - 'Why do you care about the people who are going through what they're going through?' Because it takes a hell of a lot to put them through that. So you better care for them when they're doing it.

Lee Johnson

The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.

Lawrence Durrell

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether." These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.

Laura Schlessinger

Emotions have no I.Q.

Stephen Covey

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Stephanie Klein

People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.

Susie Orbach

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Tariq Ramadan

I don't think we should take the emotional reactions of a few people as more representative than those of the millions of people who took to the street in a non-violent way against dictators.

Tariq Ramadan

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

Stephen King

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

Stephen King

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

Stephen King

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

Stephanie Rice

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

Sophie Marceau

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions

Stanley Kubrick

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

Marc Newson

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

Marc Chagall

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

Thomas a Kempis

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

Sidney Crosby

There's no doubt I'm emotional.

Shia LaBeouf

Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.

Natalie Portman

I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.

Tao Lin

But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while.

Swami Vivekananda

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Tony Robbins

What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell.

Tony Robbins

Emotion is changed by motion.

Tony Robbins

Our goal is not to ignore the problems of life, but to put ourselves in better mental and emotional states where we can not only come up with solutions, but act upon them.

Robert A. Heinlein

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

Til Schweiger

Action alone doesnt work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.

Steven Wright

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.