Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Echelman

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Jane McGonigal

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

Jane Roberts

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Erin Gray

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

Caroline Knapp

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Kim Raver

You finish a job and it's very emotional because you're working crazy long hours, and your work family is like a real family.

Cassandra Clare

I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

Muriel Rukeyser

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.

Moby

The most emotional part is when I go into my studio every day and pretty much never have an idea of what's gonna happen.

Moby

If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

Mindy Kaling

I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

Harry Shearer

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.

Frank Herbert

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

Haile Selassie

A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.

Guru Nanak

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

H. P. Lovecraft

Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat--especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

Candace Bushnell

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

Kristin Hersh

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

Klaus Schulze

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

Ken Wilber

Human beings have a variety of intelligences, such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and so on. Most people excel in one or two of those, but do poorly in the others. This is not necessarily or even usually a bad thing; part of Integral wisdom is finding where one excels and thus where one can best offer the world one's deepest gifts.

Kelly Slater

This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.

Julian Baggini

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

Julian Baggini

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

Keith Richards

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

Kristanna Loken

Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.

Gloria Stuart

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

Gloria Steinem

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

Geraldine Stutz

Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

J. Paul Getty

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

J. K. Rowling

He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

As an actress, I'm an emotional person.

Greg Lake

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

H. P. Lovecraft

I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.