“Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with the roots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. We need to embrace 'inner disarmament,' reducing our own emotions of suspicion, hatred and hostility toward our brothers and sisters” PeopleIfsNeedsTodayDealsEmotionViolenceSeriousBrotherRootsHatredAgreeEmbraceOur SocietySuspicionBrothers And SistersHostilityReducingDisarmament Author:Dalai Lama
“Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and trusts, and therefore it is the control center of the whole life. So to preach to the heart means to go right for the commanding commitments of people's lives that drive their desires, thinking, feeling, and action.” PeopleThinkingHeartMeanWholeFeelingsActionRememberDesireEmotionCommitmentFundamentalsWhole LifeSeats Author:Timothy Keller
“People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.” PeopleTwoEmotionForeverGreedControlled Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“[ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone knew would lead to a breakup and the pain that that entails. Anybody can see that story, what leads to that, and identify with it. As a filmmaker, I wanted to construct this identification process with the characters so that you fully connect to their emotions and what their breakup [represents].” PeopleTwoCharacterStoriesWantedPainFilmProcessEmotionColorBlueFilmmakerBreakupConstructsIdentification Author:Abdellatif Kechiche
“I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to meet them, and you have to hurry up and get to know them in five seconds. And then, you have to spill your emotions out to these strangers. It's funny.” PeopleKnowsEmotionFiveMetsScaredScaryStrangerSecondsButterflyAuditionsSpills Author:Elle Fanning
“I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantGivingTryingMindLongSpaceRoomsEmotionFictionComedyDramaFlowScience FictionCaughtEntertainmentCaught UpLiving RoomShowing Up Author:John Ridley
“Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.” PeopleDifferentSoulCharacterActorsMy OwnEmotionDoorsDifferent PeoplesOpened Doors Author:Scott Bakula
“No nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of their statements. We have to be critical thinkers. We have to be analytical. We should understand facts from emotion.” PeopleIfsShouldStatesFactsAmericaStrongNationsGrowsUnitedEmotionUnited StatesJudgingCriticalStatementsAgendasThinkerDisagreeUnited States Of America Author:Steve King
“Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with it, wear it, or make love with it unless deeply disturbed. In and of itself, it has no emotions, no mind, and no conscience. It doesn't put out flowers or have children, and it makes a lousy pet. It has meaning only when it circulates, and is exchanged for other things; and money doesn't do that for itself. People do that, using money as a symbolic token.” PeopleMindChildrenSaidEmotionFlowerColdDrinkConscienceUselessPetShelterOscarsMaking LoveSymbolicDisturbedTokensWilde Author:Margaret Atwood
“People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives.” PeopleEmotionHealthyNegativeBasesOngoingStressful Author:Tony Robbins
“My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes. If it's not just two people talking in a room, but it's on the move and things are happening and it's chaotic, and emotion comes from the characters and from the action, and the fall-out ultimately changes the character relationships, that exactly the kind of stuff I like writing.” PeopleIfsWritingKindTwoCharacterActionMovingFallStuffRoomsEmotionTalkingSceneHappeningsMy FavoriteDrivenThings To DoChaoticFavorites ThingsPeople TalkingStuff I Like Author:Geoff Johns
“I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how you arrange the elements in front of a camera has an impact on people's belief about that world in some way.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsFeelingsBeliefEmotionAudienceFrontsElementsCamerasImpactSubliminal Author:Scott Hicks
“Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill.” PeopleChildrenSpeakParentEmotionPrinciplesTeachMoralityIntegrityHighestOur ChildrenSticksHonestlyYour ChildrenInstill Author:Jeff Bryant
“Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.” PeopleWishEmotionFailing Author:Daniel Pearce
“As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.” PeopleTryingLyingCoursesEmotionGoes OnCommitmentPaidExcellenceObligationBlockades Author:Twyla Tharp
“You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.” PeopleWantArtMovingSportsEmotionChessSpectators Author:Garry Kasparov
“Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.” PeopleWellsSelfPastFormDesireEmotionComfortableTraumaWell BeingImpulseSelf KnowledgeDiscomfort Author:Ben Stewart
“People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.” PeopleNeedsFeelsAgeEmotionEmotionalOld AgeReluctant Book:Learn to Grow Old Source: Learn to Grow Old
“I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsRealStuffEmotionEmotionalMusic IsNotesRelateStringsMelodyBeing RealTopicsChordsReal Music Author:Sam McCandless
“I guess it was this over-riding feeling I wanted people to get from the album - a kind of positivity. On the one hand it's quite a sad record, but I wanted the songs in essence to be about pulling yourself out of a difficult time. So I thought that the idea of day after a really long, difficult night, would be pretty appropriate... I think the album's about contrasts too - contrasts of emotion - so I thought the comparison was appropriate.” PeopleThinkingKindLongIdeasFeelingsHandsWould BeWantedNightSongDifficultEmotionRecordsEssenceAlbumsPositivityAppropriateComparisonContrastRidingPullingDifficult TimesReally Long Author:Sarah Blasko
“I always said I would have gone in to psychology, or maybe the FBI. I'm really in to and interested in humans and their minds and emotions. I think that's another reason I like songwriting. It's amazing the stories you can tell about someone, just from a little people watching” PeopleThinkingMindHumansLittlesSaidReasonStoriesEmotionGonePsychologySongwritingFbi Author:Jessica Harp
“Some people love so hard that they can't control those emotions when they're at their deepest point.” PeopleHardEmotion Author:Kevin Hart
“I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.” PeopleFactsEmotionArgumentCome UpNever Regret Author:Patton Oswalt
“I was always shy. Writing was my only outlet. Because I always hid in a room, I spent a lot of time watching people. When I was a small child I could detect hidden body language in others only I could see. People's emotions rub off on me. When I told this to my therapist she said, "Well, you're an empath." I thought, "No way. Like Star Trek?" And she clarified: because I am so socially uncomfortable, I have compassion for others who I recognize are also struggling. People with anxiety are acutely aware.” PeopleWayWritingWellsChildrenSaidBodyLanguageStarsRoomsEmotionCompassionStruggleAnxietyUncomfortableShyOutletsTherapistsSmall ChildBody LanguageEmpathsCompassion For Others Author:Jenny Lawson
“Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry.” PeopleThinkingBookFactsFormSongCultureEmotionRocksElementsFolksRapOur TimePoetry IsRock And RollOne LoveUrgentLove PoetryEmoLyric PoetryHank Williams Author:Gregory Orr
“I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.” PeopleThinkingIdeasEmotionDoubtCrazyBenefitsCalmBoringBenefit Of The DoubtCrazy Ideas Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.” PeopleEyeFacesNaturalEmotionBehindsTendenciesIntriguing Author:Hiro Murai
“I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every piece I write is about all emotions at once, about the lines in between. It's never only about one thing or another. It's emotionally getting at those things that we can't really describe - things for which we don't have labels. So yes, it's about something, and it has a use. It's neither about nothing nor about something concrete - it's about what you bring to it as a listener.” PeopleWantWritingUseOrderLinesEmotionPiecesOne ThingAccessLabelsConcreteListeners Author:Missy Mazzoli
“I just want people to feel the emotion that's in the record. For me it's very raw and beautiful, I guess it's kind of like a diary for me. I'd love for people to be able to listen to it and it make them dance and cry and the same time.” PeopleWantFeelsKindAbleBeautifulEmotionRecordsCryDiaries Author:Charli XCX
“As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side of it, I do feel that people that are trying to sell culture would like to see a narrower range of expression from their content-makers. Easier to sell I guess.” PeopleFeelsTryingArtCultureSidesEmotionExpressionEasierSellsWideConsumersRangeTouchedMakersRange Of Emotions Author:Erin McKeown
“People, based on their emotion, will express support for the sentiment, not necessarily the specifics 'cause there are none.” PeopleEmotionSupportSentimentsSpecifics Author:Jeb Bush
“I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so many other people's story at the same time. It kind of exemplifies that we are all kind of on the same wave[length] - it's amazing how comforting somebody else's story can be, because we have experienced their story in some way or another, and I can totally relate, and I get to feel that feeling and the expression of that emotion. I get to feel like as a listener, that somebody understands me, which is pretty incredible.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWritingKindI CanStoriesFeelingsSongEmotionExpressionMusic IsIncrediblesWaveAll KindsRelateBest ThingsLengthListenersComfortingUnderstand Me Author:Theresa Wayman
“I think I have an awareness inside of me that we are all the same, that basically we are all part of that one heart. When I am with people, I feel there is a part of me that knows a part of them because we are beyond our personalities, our emotions, and our thoughts.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsHeartEmotionAwarenessPersonalityOur Thoughts Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“We are inducting Connor "The Crusher" Michalek into the WWE Hall of Fame with the Warrior Award, and it's going to be really hard with the waves of emotion that will set in. I will have to share with everyone what he meant to me and also deal with how sad his story is. He was so inspiring to people, it is going to be really emotional for me. It should be very special!” PeopleShouldHardStoriesDealsEmotionShareSpecialEmotionalFameWaveWarriorHallsAwardsWweHall Of Fame Author:Daniel Bryan
“Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.” PeopleThinkingNeedsSometimesSufferingRealizingAbilityEmotionConsciousnessAwarenessDimensions Author:Eckhart Tolle
“There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's all of these people who think that they've saved his life, and really care about him because they've embraced him and they've been his saviors. In "Fight Club" it's all of these people who are dying of various diseases, and they thought that Edward Norton was also dying so they allowed him really strong pent-up emotions.” PeopleThinkingWholeCareFightingStrongSocialEmotionDyingDiseaseVariousClubsSavedBunchContractsSaviorDeceivedChokeProtagonistsSocial ContractPeople Who Are Dying Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I did a lot of research on a couple different things. One was, how do people handle hating themselves and hating others? And hatred is a secondary emotion, I think; it always springs from something else ... usually fear, that's probably what it is. So I looked a lot at that.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHateEmotionCoupleSpringResearchHatredHandleDifferent Things Author:Lauren Myracle
“I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.” PeopleTryingHumansLanguageEmotionPrimalHuman Emotions Author:Will Smith
“People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.” PeopleTryingBelieveFeelingsEmotionExercise Author:Kieran Hebden
“We all know people who say: "It's the principle of the matter" to justify sustaining toxic emotions for years. As they hold onto their anger or hurt, they bleed away their energy reserves, often ending up bitter and depressed.” PeopleKnowsYearsMatterEnergyHurtEmotionPrinciplesAngerManagementBitterJustifyToxicReservesAnger ManagementSustaining Author:Doc Childre
“Observe people with cool eyes, listen to their words with cool ears. Confront feelings with cool emotions, reflect on principles with a cool mind.” PeopleMindFeelingsEyeEmotionPrinciplesEarsTaoism Author:Zicheng Hong
“Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.” PeopleMovingEasyChallengesEmotionExperimentsBack And Forth Author:Steven Soderbergh