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“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.”

Way Humans Made Facts Belief Religious Common Emotion Ordinary Adults Human Experience Religious Belief Common Ground

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

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

“There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”

Art Film Form Common Emotion Music Intellect

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.”

“Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.”

Reason Common Emotion Doors Judgment Window Common Sense Kicks Good Judgment

Author:John Wooden

“All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.”

Humans Law Interest Common Emotion Fundamentals Tales Cosmos Significance Premises Validity Organic Life

Book:The Classic Horror Stories

Source: The Classic Horror Stories

“Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.”

Loses Common Emotion Overcoming Common Sense Mysticism Overcoming Fear Gaining Power Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.”

Knows Way Pain Song Common Emotion

Author:Jon Foreman

“Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.”

Feels Trying Ends Feelings Common Emotion Tests Everyday Bridges Performing Melody Exhilarating Test Of Time Acropolis Exhilarating Feeling

Author:Bradley Joseph

“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”

Way Art Seems Moving Form Certain Lines Answers Common Emotion Quality Objects Particular Color Relation Significant Combination Visuals Aesthetic Provoking Visual Art

Author:Clive Bell

“To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.”

People Ifs Way Mean Ideas Common Emotion Share Common Denominator

Author:Agnes Varda

“Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.”

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment. High performing leaders are able to unite diverse team members by building common goals and even shared emotions by engaging in powerful and effective dialogue.”

“We all have common emotions. And, and our experiences may not be all common but the emotions sure are.”

May Common Emotion

Author:Jeff Barry