Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

Ayn Rand

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

Ben Fountain

A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.

Carol Gilligan

Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.

Alan Lightman

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

Alain de Botton

Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

J. Taylor

Now we can form an emotional relationship. It's all relative to the performances of the actors around him.

Newell tries to find the emotional reality in material that, until now, has been used more to showcase fantasy and wonder.

Obviously, it was pretty emotional for everyone. She didn't remember much. But when I walked into the hospital, she did remember my face.

Obviously he was surprised and shocked. He did not know he was being tape-recorded. ... He was emotional and he said it was disturbing.

Obviously, he's a very emotional young man. It's the nature of the beast, and we move on.

Deepak Chopra

Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.

Deepak Chopra

Complications take many forms, including an imbalanced lifestyle, toxic relationships, hidden emotional debts, resistance, indecision, addictions, and negative conditioned beliefs. When our life is overly complicated, we're weighed down by superfluous things at every level.

David Nicholls

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

John Conyers

We need to move past the emotional side of this issue, ... over the top ... We need to invest in solutions of a preventive nature.

Derrick Brooks

Simeon was very emotional stepping in that huddle.

Michel Therrien

Sidney Crosby is an emotional guy. You don't want to take that away. It's part of his game.

Paul Burrell

She looked on me as an emotional washing machine.

Brian Molko

The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.

Brian Greene

My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

Brian Greene

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

Brett Hoebel

If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

Brett Favre

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

Barbara Jordan

[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.

Barbara Sher

We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.

Arthur Koestler

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

Kevin Spacey

Lester goes through not only a spiritual and emotional reawakening, but he gets pumped up, ... I had to work with a trainer for about four months and then every day on the set, twice a day.

Robert Gottlieb

'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'

Daisy Ridley

So many people look up to Jennifer Lawrence playing Katniss in 'The Hunger Games.' For them to look up to Rey and what she represents would be fantastic. She's a wonderful character... The reason I love her so much is she does all the fun stuff. She fights, runs and protects herself and has an incredible emotional story.

She wanted it a lot. It's an emotional rivalry. She's the leader. She's the one that fires everyone up. She's gonna take it hard.

She was our emotional leader, and our leader on the court. I hope she rubs off on our younger players so they know how hard you have to work to play championship basketball.

Elbert Hubbard

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Ehud Olmert

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.