Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brittany Snow

I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

Edwidge Danticat

Anger is a wasted emotion.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

Edmund Burke

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Bob Newhart

Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.

Bo Burnham

Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you're on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don't want to be onstage looking like a robot, I want to be at the end of the day very emotional and what feels like someone being up there rather than reciting things. That's always the challenge, to analyze and then somehow lose yourself in something you absolutely know backwards and forwards. And nothing's going to surprise you, but you have to be surprised by it and let it surprise you.

David Viscott

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Audrey Tautou

I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.

Audre Lorde

Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

Arthur Penn

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

bell hooks

I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.

Aunjanue Ellis

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

Arundhati Roy

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Ariel Gore

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

Diana Vreeland

Without emotion there is no beauty

Dean Koontz

The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

Daniel Goleman

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

Daniel Goleman

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership.

Daniel Goleman

Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.

Daniel Goleman

....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.

Daniel Goleman

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Daniel Goleman

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Daniel Goleman

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Asghar Farhadi

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

Armand Assante

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

What we learned post-9/11 is that people get tapped out on these huge emotional responses, ... That is a real issue because all of us have limited budgets.

Frankie Dettori

There are mixed emotions about this because usually I am riding for Sheikh Mohammed in this race, ... I have to thank him for letting me ride. It feels a little peculiar that I won this for the main opposition, but that's the way things have gone this year.

Gary Bennett

We ran the whole gamut of emotion. We fed off these fans all the way.