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“Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.”

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Author:Brené Brown

“A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.”

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Author:David Farland

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

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Author:John Assaraf

“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.”

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Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”

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Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.”

“As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.”

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Author:Fede Alvarez

“Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.”

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Book:Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context

Source: Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context

“You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.”

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Author:John Lennon

“How dangerous a master human emotion is!”

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Book:The Spiritual Man

Source: The Spiritual Man

“For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.”