Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Coogan

The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

Monica Crowley

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

Mira Sorvino

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

Pearl S. Buck

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

Pema Chodron

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

Pema Chodron

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

Pema Chodron

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

Pema Chodron

Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.

Payne Stewart

For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.

Peter Salovey

We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

Peter O'Toole

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

Pete Rozelle

Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems

Placido Domingo

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

Terence McKenna

This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's being you can't be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

Teju Cole

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

Temple Grandin

I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

Sebastian Vettel

I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.

Sebastian Vettel

I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.

Scarlett Johansson

Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again.

Shreya Ghoshal

I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.

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.