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“If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.”

Ifs Levels Emotion Losing Lows Upset Mysticism Indulge Stressful Not Happy Indulge In Sloppy Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of golf. Professionals invariably trudge phlegmatically around the course - whatever emotions are seething within - with the grim yet placid and bored look of cowpokes, slack-bodied in their saddles, who have been tending the same herd for two months.”

“It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.”

Ifs Character Challenges Interesting Emotion

Author:Tim Burton

“If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Moments Use Feelings Body Pain Actors Emotion Gone Involved Anxiety Tools Access Your Body Severe

Author:Joel Kinnaman

“God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.”

Ifs Humans Strong Human Beings Emotion Idiot Millionaire

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.”

Ifs Art Self Reality Emotion Masters Regret Discipline Self Discipline

Author:John Assaraf

“In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.”

Ifs Knows Men World Two Hands Asks Emotion Our Lives This World Ego Intelligent Possession Significant Day To Day Compelled Day Life Day To Day Life Upper Hand

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.”

“If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.”

Ifs Emotion Dues Deprived

Book:Love or perish

Source: Love or perish

“If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has announced itself to my availability will I then say I need to use my mind to calculate exposure, my emotions to position myself and arrange a configuration of shapes that need to come into being, my body to put it all in place because we have been given a message and it has come through inspiration through being available.'”

Ifs Needs Mind Has Beens Use Body Inspiration Given Emotion Position Shapes Messages Photographer Available Rationality Engaging Exposure Availability Configuration

Author:Paul Caponigro

“My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.”

Ifs Giving Song Emotion Rocks Music Is Red Hot Spit Peppers Red Hot Chili Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers

Author:Kanye West

“Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.”

Ifs Way Feels I Can Done Artist Perfect Emotion Painting Performances

Author:Jimmy Page

“Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.”

Ifs Writing Feelings Games Difficult Emotion Brain Sadness Ignored Tiptoes

Author:Matthea Harvey

“If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.”

Ifs Moving Business Emotion Policy Civilization Greed Makers Policy Makers

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.”

Ifs World Want Real Emotion Alive Real World Happily Ever After Ever After

Book:My Life in High Heels

Source: My Life in High Heels

“Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.”

Ifs Life Trying Years Mind Mean Hard Moving Used Night Fear Easy Business Emotion Silence Careers Power Learning Torment Detachment

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“I'd be lying if I said I wasn't human and tears weren't rolling down my face and I wasn't pissed and I wasn't angry. There are lots of times that those emotions come out in my career.”

Ifs Humans Said Faces Lying Emotion Careers Tears Angry Rolling

Author:Carli Lloyd

“There are a lot of guys who think that if they show weakness or vulnerability they're not sexy anymore or attractive. In my opinion, you can't be too open or too gentle or kind or sensitive. If you really want to work on a relationship and have one that lasts, you have to be willing to go deep into human psychology and emotion. If you don't want to go there, you can be a serial dater, and I guess that's okay, but if you want a relationship with a woman, you have to be introspective and look at yourself and your family and where you've been and where you're going.”

“Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Trying Wells Sometimes Results Emotion Violent Peaceful Control Ourselves

Author:Yoko Ono

“I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's always a wolf at the door, the emotions are high; the romance, the sexuality, friendships, and relationships. You don't know if the guy kissing you one minute is going to bite you the next. This heightens all of the sensibilities and emotions, and therefore, it sings to me. And that's where the music comes from.”

“Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.”

Ifs Self Purpose Pleasure Emotion Brain Emotional Anger Blow Cruelty Poison Destructive Substitutes Justification Justified Triggers Loathing Self Loathing Tornadoes

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.”

Ifs States Emotion Building Sitting Architecture Empires Catharsis Silhouettes Empire State Building Empire State

Author:Timothy Levitch

“The subconscious ... reacts very quickly to strong emotions or feelings. Whatever it is you vividly imagine, the subconscious thinks is actually happening. The subconscious, if instructed properly, is like a faithful, obedient servant who fulfills your every wish.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Strong Wish Emotion Imagine Happenings Faithful Servant Subconscious Obedient Strong Emotions

Author:John Harricharan

“You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.”

Ifs Giving Feels Humans Emotion Treats Give Me Edges

Author:Bear Grylls

“To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.”

Ifs Way Feels Trying Emotion Cutting Survival Cures Conquer Mechanism Conquering Fear Intervening Xanax

Author:Nick Nolte

“In public, I hardly ever show feelings. That's what happens when everything you do is put under a magnifying glass. But if you've spent some time hiding behind your public mask, and you're back in your own environment, then all that suppressed emotions still has to be set loose. As a result you are going to behave like a nutcase. I think thats why so many people who are famous go nuts.”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Shows Feelings Happens Results Emotion Behinds Environment Glasses Behave Mask Hiding Nuts Magnifying Magnifying Glass

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.”

People Ifs May Doe Wish Loses Memories Emotion Edges Details Acid Outlines Blur

Book:Mosaic

Source: Mosaic

“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.”

Ifs Looks Mean Art Action Form Emotion Quality Moral Virtue Intellectual Concerned Dues Excess Accurate Hitting Deficiency Craftsman Moral Virtues If Then

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.”

Ifs Knows Artist Results Emotion Inspired Unconscious Receptive

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“There's design and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!”

Ifs Looks Art Different Suffering Perfect Emotion Design Art Is Function Harmony Designer Branches Leafs Good Design

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mind Firsts States Emotion Comedy Emotional Skills Jokes Intention Starting Adjusting Writing Comedy

Author:Steve Martin

“You've got to bring the emotion, and you have to understand that you can't touch other people if you're not touched. You can't move other people if you're not moved. So if you're just giving some frickin talk you've memorized over and over again, you're going to have a flat affect. If you've just got a bunch of visuals on the screen that are leading your talk, hang up your shoes and get the hell out of there.”

People Ifs Giving Moving Emotion Hell Moved Shoes Screens Bunch Visuals Touched Flats Hang Ups

Author:Tony Robbins

“When you're wearing an animal costume and something bad happens, your facial expression doesn't change. The animal is deadpan the whole time. If you're skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion. It's just a stoic gorilla, wildly falling down a hill, out of control.”

Ifs Whole Happens Fall Animal Emotion Expression Suits Hills Costumes Falling Down Skiing Stoic Facial Gorillas Facial Expression

Author:Demetri Martin

“If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Persons Use Language Difficult Emotion Academic Vocabulary Anglo Saxon

Author:Lydia Davis

“We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had used works of imagination to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy.”

Ifs World Facts Feelings Political Used Speak Realizing Imagination Emotion Half Communicate Thoughts And Feelings Ploy

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.”

Ifs Mean Persons Doe Soul Happens Certain Party Emotion Cold Individuality Collections Longevity Fragility Uncool Freezer Cool Person

Author:Alber Elbaz

“Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.”

Ifs Want Stories Emotion Dare Smallest

Book:The Writer Who Stayed

Source: The Writer Who Stayed

“Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.”

“To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.”

Ifs Humans Heart Littles I Can Body Emotion Your Body Bars Iron Wire Bounce Human Emotions

Author:Tony Robbins

“When there's something that impacts a family member or friend, that is difficult for them, you want to do what you can to help. Sometimes you can't do anything and it makes you feel like you're helpless, so those emotions cross a big barometer, but they're a big, broad stroke when it comes to someone who you care about. If you have compassion in your heart, you just care.”

Ifs Want Feels Heart Sometimes Helping Bigs Care Difficult Emotion Compassion Like You Members Crosses Impact Broads Helpless Strokes Family Members Barometer

Author:Queen Latifah

“So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.”

Ifs Made Hard Character Might Action Film Emotion Havens Expression Fingers Corny Animated Facial Action Films Facial Expression Animated Films

Author:Steve Martin

“If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.”

Ifs Writing Lasts Song Emotion Keys

Author:Elton John

“You're always feeling powerless in life. If you're in an abusive relationship or working for what we call a psychotic boss sometimes the only option is to leave because you're emotions get so entangled with these manipulative people that staying there you're just helpless because they're good at passive aggressive games and you're not, so you have to leave.”

People Ifs Sometimes Feelings Games Emotion Staying Boss Aggressive Passive Helpless Powerless Abusive Psychotic Manipulative Abusive Relationship Passive Aggressive

Author:Robert Greene

“Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.”

Ifs Heart May Difficult Challenges Emotion Environment Wake Up Calm Routine Harsh Our Environment

Author:Rita Zahara

“A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.”

Ifs Mind Eye Left Emotion Speech Majors Ears Occasions Execution Fascination Immune Horrific

Author:Michael Foot

“Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.”

Ifs Said Character Song Emotion Involved Musician Singing Realistic Portraying Blues Music

Author:Jack White

“When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and see if you can bring that back to the surface, so that you can then literally hand it off to the character, and then let him run with it.”

Ifs Character Hands Running Emotion Surface Fake

Author:Jackie Earle Haley

“You don't have to be kind. You have to be calm. Once you start showing that people can affect your emotions, then you obviously don't have that much power. If a stewardess can affect your emotional life, then you don't have any power in life and you just showed your whole hand.”

People Ifs Kind Whole Hands Emotion Emotional Calm Be Kind Emotional Life Stewardess

Author:Vincent Kartheiser

“You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.”

Ifs Want Emotion Connections Investing Personal Connection

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.”

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