Best Emotion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.”

Feels Emotion Situation Findings Extremes Songwriting Triggers

Author:Laura Marling

“I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.”

People Way Years Humans Two Human Beings Animal Emotion Models True Emotions

Author:Ryan McGinley

“Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.”

People Way Long Has Beens Use Past Purpose Order Passion Emotion Modern Long Time Glory Purity Phenomenon Fundamentalism Oppressed Evoke Islamists

Author:Azar Nafisi

“There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.”

Real Moments Character Acting Emotion Emotional Bases Method Response Real Life Emotional Response Residual Method Acting

Author:Corin Nemec

“Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.”

Sometimes Emotion Music Is Connections Initials Promoting Jaded

Author:David Nail

“The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.”

Suffering Actors Emotion British Deliberate Stifling Stiffness

Author:Ivor Novello

“I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.”

Trying Stories Able Song Emotion Transmit

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.”

Thinking Trying Play Character Emotion Focus Shame Relate Frustration Load Soup Helplessness Unfamiliar Psycho Unfairness

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.”

People Way Process Emotion Information Helpful

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: 'Something is important here, otherwise I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want?' And then simply turn your attention to what you DO want. In the moment that you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop, and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And in that moment, your feelings will change from not feeling good to feeling good.”

Want Feels Important Moments Feelings Spiritual Turns Emotion Attention Negative Attraction What You Want Feel Good Law Of Attraction That Moment Negative Emotions Not Feeling Good

Author:Esther Hicks

“The energy you give off based on your beliefs... your emotions... your behavior... the vibrational frequency you give off is what determines the kind of reality experience you have... because physical reality doesn't exist except as a reflection of what you most strongly believe is true for you. That is all that physical reality is. It is literally like a mirror.”

Giving Believe Kind Reality Spiritual Belief Energy Emotion Behavior Reflection Mirrors Determine Attraction Law Of Attraction Frequency

Author:Darryl Anka

“When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.”

Writing Looks Emotion Pure Hebrew Sophistication

Author:Yael Naim

“I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything but especially anything where it's a strong emotion. Whether she's crying or she's angry or she's - whatever emotion she's feeling I actually think that she's feeling it and I want to hug her and make it all better.”

Thinking Want Hard Feelings Strong Emotion Cry Angry Hard Times My Sister Hug Strong Emotions Sister Act

Author:Kay Panabaker

“You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.”

Moving Emotion

Author:Mike Quade

“The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.”

Thinking Needs Actors Emotion Drawing Steady

Author:Kelly Reilly

“I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.”

People Thinking Loses Emotion Saws Wonderful Land Intense Jimmy Wonderful Life Scorsese It's A Wonderful Life Jimmy Stewart Intense Emotions

Author:David O. Russell

“Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.”

Believe Stuff Emotion Fool Mislead Untrue

Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.”

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Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.”

Knows Giving Long Feelings Desire Values Term Hurt Emotion Opinion Dog Mood Long Term Deep Thought Hurt Feelings Very Deep

Author:Garth Stein

“When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.”

Emotion Growing Up Growing Complexes Movie

Author:John Slattery

“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.”

Way Feels Long I Can Language Sound Emotion Pieces Emotional Flow Focused Finished Rhythm

Author:Taiye Selasi

“Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.”

Feels Should Art Book Emotion Art Is Theater

Author:Dominique Swain

“I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.”

Thinking Knows Way Desire Emotion Fiction Nice Information Our Time Reminding Neurology Polarization

Author:George Saunders

“Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace with our conscience. Without conscience there would be no morality. So we can greet guilt cordially and with acceptance, just as we do all other emotions. After we respond to guilt, it has done its job and we can release it.”

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Book:10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence, & Create a Positive Self-Image

Source: 10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence, & Create a Positive Self-Image

“Every living being is psychic. Whether or not we are consciously aware of it, we feel vibrations and energies coming to us from other people all the time. The vast majority of the thoughts you think and the emotions you feel aren't your own.”

People Thinking Feels Energy Emotion Majority Psychics Vibrations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.”

Persons Emotion Buddhism Balance Positive Emotions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If suddenly you get depressed, it doesn't have to throw you. You can push those emotions aside. You can cultivate happy emotions or become emotionless when you need to be very sensitive.”

Ifs Needs Emotion Buddhism Balance Sensitive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.”

Mind Made Reality Emotion Brain Awareness Buddhism Infinite Series Endless Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions”

Happiness Desire Emotion Crazy Buddhism Right Now Silly Where You Are Be You Just Being Just Being You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion.”

Love Is Emotion Buddhism Illusion Sexuality Beloved Chariots Prisms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

Way Mind Art Self Body Artist Fighting Winning Emotion Situation Health Buddhism Art Is Martial Arts Combat Mastery Self Mastery Athletics Mind Body Martial Artist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.”

Ifs Enough Emotion Health Buddhism Activity Useless Association Drains Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.”

People Want Feels Book Emotion Events

Author:Neil Strauss

“You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.”

Ifs Knows Trying Ideas Ends Hate Fall Fun Emotion Media Like You No Idea Having Fun The End Of The Day Tides Darling And At The End Of The Day

Author:Regina Spektor

“I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.”

Feels Writing Trying Soul Passion Voice Emotion Transmit True Passion

Author:Romeo Santos

“I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.”

Persons Bigs Sound Emotion Compare

Author:Analeigh Tipton

“Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.”

Men Feels Kind Pain Actors Emotion Nice

Author:Miles Teller

“I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.”

People Ifs Want Jobs Remember Acting Emotion Taken Figures My Time Psychologist Analyzing Time Off

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.”

Enjoy Emotion Steps Scene Elements Pushing Something New Push Yourself Learning Something New Dance Steps

Author:Kenny Wormald

“Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.”

Way Trying Kind Stories Goal Emotion Clear Comedy Cutting Achieve Figures Drama Scene

Author:Luke Wilson

“I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.”

People Writing Emotion Path Feet Ordinary Ordinary People Describing Standpoint Feet On The Ground

Author:Mo Yan

“It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.”

Humans Emotion Impossible Mystery Limitation Overwhelming Human Intelligence Knowledge And Power Mystery Of Nature Overwhelming Emotions

Book:The Concept of Nature

Source: The Concept of Nature

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.”

Inspirational Use Emotion Journey Wind Buddhism Gains Navigate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.”

Able Strong Ability Emotion Meditation Buddhism Exercise Gains Strikes Concentration Strong Emotions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.”

“The recipe for creating anything is really quite simple. Take good or bad feelings (meaning positive or negative vibrations), bake with varying degrees of emotion to increase magnetism, and here comes what we've attracted, like it or not. What we have focused on, and how we have vibrated about it, is what we have gotten... from birth.”

Feelings Spiritual Spirituality Simple Emotion Birth Degrees Creating Negative Increase Focused Recipes Vibrations Magnetism

Book:Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings

Source: Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings

“Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.”

Wells Persons Enough Energy Love Is Emotion Doubt Theory Devil Opposites Treated Meaning Of Life Good Person Fickle Polar Opposites

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

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