Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Cohen

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Lil' Kim

It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

Marty Schottenheimer

This will not be too big for Philip Rivers. I'm talking about it from the emotional and intellectual standpoint.

Bill James

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

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

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.

Benjamin Graham

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

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.

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.

Geraldo Rivera

We didn't tell the families what happened, the families told us what happened. The families were informed by the governor and his staff and by other rescue-connected people. We were here and took the same emotional ride as the families.

Auberon Waugh

Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

Aubrey Plaza

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

Ben Horowitz

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.