“Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingArtIdeasUseSeemsSpiritualCultureStrongLevelsTalkingEmotionalReaderHorrorIntellectualLowsArt IsDrivingReactionsPornographyComponentsSympatheticEvokeVisceralHighs And LowsHigh ArtVolvo Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.” YearsI CanSometimesTurnsMy OwnNovelIssuesEmotionalMonthsPagesMetaphorEnormousReactionsResolveMy Own LifeEmotional Reactions Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].” PeopleThinkingWantWritingSchoolRememberChoicesWaitingHalfEmotionalHigh SchoolSittingMiserableIronicNostalgicClassmatesWant To See You Author:Sarah Dessen
“I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn't see any flashing bulbs. I didn't hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.” WantHeartJesusChristLordEmotionalMy HeartI Want YouThunderJust SayingBulbsSaying YesGradual Change Author:Billy Graham
“I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.” IfsWellsLooksBodySpiritualFatherLevelsEmotionalHusbandHighestIntellectualFunction Author:Willi Smith
“To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.” NeedsCareEnergyParentEmotionalTake CareOur FamilyTake Care Of YourselfGood ParentEmotional Energy Author:Michelle Obama
“Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact” EventsEmotionalExpectationsWeightImpactSelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.” FirstsMayOpportunityEmotionalHabitGainsResolutionAspire Book:The Heart of William James Source: The Heart of William James
“The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.” PeopleFeelsHumansHeartMeanFeelingsFormCoursesAbilityCompassionKindnessEmotionalEmpathyFellowsRelatedFacultyGoodwillOpen HeartLamaDalai Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.” PeopleWayTermEmotionalHugeBehaviorIntellectualMarkBlindSpotsSophisticatedBlind Spots Author:Noah Baumbach
“I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women.” ThinkingMenGuyStrongSexEmotionalPressureSupposed To BeX Men Author:Patti Smith
“Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.” PeopleKnowsMadeStoriesIndividualPowerfulBrainEmotionalArgumentConnectionsScientistRationalStorytellingJournalistDiscoveringPortal Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.” FormAchieveEffectsEmotionalExpressionMusic IsHarmonyExtraordinaryExtremesComposerDynamicsWagnerOrchestration Author:Daniel Barenboim
“True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.” WorldStoriesLiteratureLevelsMoralEmotionalReaderEssencePhilosophical Author:Orhan Pamuk
“The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may become quite depressed.” PeopleMayJobsEmotionalLosingDivorceTraumaPsychologicalHardshipPsychological Trauma Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.” FoundEmotionalColorStructureCriticalArchitectEngineers Author:John Hench
“You get all excited to give her the ring, and it's real emotional, and you give it to her, and she cries. And a second later, you're like, 'Damn, I could have had a car.'” GivingRealHumorFunnyCarCryEmotionalExcitedRingsDamn Author:Marc Maron
“Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.” DiesEmotionalMysteriousDryDry Up Author:Vivian Gornick
“I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsHumansAmericaChoicesCultureFoundViewsRaceEmotionalMembersIdealsDefinitionsPoint Of ViewHuman RaceHuman ExperienceDetachmentDetached Author:George Carlin
“Any successful corporation, if they adopt the three, they're going to be not just wealthy but they're going to be balanced. A lot of corporations adopt exercise, discipline, no affection. But you must maintain the three, because it's part of what you need. You need physical stimulation, you need mental stimulation and of course you need emotional stimulation.” IfsNeedsThreeCoursesSuccessfulEmotionalDisciplineExerciseAffectionCorporationsWealthyBalancedNeed YouStimulation Author:Cesar Millan
“People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.” PeopleEmotionalLessonsNewsLearning Lessons Author:Michael Shannon
“Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.” ThinkingMenWantCharacterStrongNaturalSubjectsEmotionalWeakNatural Things Author:Kristen Stewart
“I love my girlfriend, don't get me wrong. I truly love this woman, but I have the ability to have sex without any emotional involvement. It's a gift.” HumorFunnySexAbilityEmotionalGirlfriendInvolvementMy Girlfriend Author:Adam Ferrara
“The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.” PeopleMenHumansUseMightPainFormChristReligiousAcceptingChristianityEnvironmentImpossibleEmotionalGainsAreasAspectValuableSymbolsUnconsciousWildernessAssociationDeitiesDiscomfortReligious ExperienceHuman Form Author:Donald Glover
“I get a lot of satisfaction from crafting and shaping mixes. I love finding the right balance, the right dynamic. It's an emotional interaction with the music.” EmotionalBalanceFindingsSatisfactionInteraction Author:Chris McCormack
“Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art historian. When the artist produces something he or she relates to it with the eye of an art historian/critic. I have the feeling that when I am working it is more like working with soap opera or glamour. It is emotional and not art criticism or history of art.” WayArtFeelingsEyeArtistProduceEmotionalArt IsCriticismCriticsContemporaryRelateWorking ItHistorianOperaSoapGlamourArt HistorySoap OperasContemporary Art Author:Odd Nerdrum
“It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or whatnot, and jumping up and down on a pogo stick while playing a fancy lead guitar. And they get mad when I sing a heartfelt emotional song and if there's an album full of them.” IfsReasonSongFansEmotionalMadSticksGuitarAlbumsLike MeFancyJumpingUp And DownHeartfeltYellingBeing FunnyPogo Sticks Author:Butch Walker
“I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a way to sort it out. You know, to externalize it, sort it out, put it down, look at it, and hopefully it would become clearer.” WayWritingLooksPersonsYoungFeltEmotionalConfusionHopefullyPsychics Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas are overlapping and interacting as well, the emotional, intuitive, animal areas.” WellsCoursesBornAnimalBrainEmotionalAreasReasoningIntuitiveInteractingOverlappingThrottle Author:Michael Longley
“Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.” PeopleLevelsEmotionalTypeWideRangeAstronaut Author:Julie Payette
“Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The characters really have to work. Children, as an audience, are very inspirational for me.” PeopleChildrenCharacterAudienceEmotionalVery Inspirational Author:Jan Brett
“The key aspect to meditating is that you close your eyes and engage in thoughts that are positive, uplifting, and create feelings of physical and emotional relaxation.” FeelingsEyeEmotionalKeysAspectUpliftingRelaxationMeditatingPositive Uplifting Author:Tim McCarthy
“Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more consumer goods. There is no energy source that can provide enough consumer goods to meet our human and emotional needs; there never has been, and that's why it's been such a fruitless pursuit.” PeopleNeedsHumansHas BeensEnoughEnergyEmotionalSourcePursuitEndlessConsumersGoodsExcessConsumptionMaking People HappyEnergy SourcesEmotional NeedsNo Energy Author:Tim DeChristopher
“The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and ideas about how they should be. I think fiction can capture that kind of thing better than other genres because in fiction you can explore the feelings of your characters - the before and the after.” ThinkingShouldKindIdeasDifferentCountryCharacterFeelingsFictionMovementEmotionalTransformationLiberationGenreCaptureExplosions Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.” FeelsCan DoNovelEmotionalPeriodsOrdinary Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.” ImportantFictionEmotionalCreatingAspect Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.” FirstsArtistEmotionalPaintingPassionatePainterVans Author:Philip Schultz
“Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".” NeedsFeelsEnoughFormOrderForceInformationEmotionalExpressionTruth IsRewardsDetermineGenuineDiggingArtistry Author:Philip Schultz
“I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.” ThinkingBookCharacterWantedActorsEmotional Author:Scott Cohen
“My music is very emotional. The reason why I want to play music is very emotional. I want to call out my emotions and package them into music.” WantReasonPlayEmotionEmotionalMusic IsReason WhyPackages Author:Hiromi
“Yoga is something that once you start practicing it you learn a lot of breathing skills and I think that would really be incredibly useful on a day-to-day basis. It can help you with all the emotional stress.” ThinkingHelpingEmotionalSkillsYogaBasesStressBreathingDay To DayEmotional Stress Author:Jayne Middlemiss
“There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.” ThinkingPersonsEmotionalPsychologicalDimensionsThinking Person Author:George Coyne
“The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.” ThinkingDoeHandsJobsEnvironmentEmotionalParticularMaterialsHonorMusicianMusic IsAbstractionImperativesAccommodateLyricalUpper Hand Author:Sufjan Stevens
“The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.” WayChildrenWarGamesWinningPowerfulEmotionFantasyEmotionalComputerOvercomingMonstersParadoxTerritoryCombatLoadEnteringShortcutsStimulationPersonal SuccessNew TerritoryComputer Games Author:E. O. Wilson
“Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.” PeopleBeautifulRolesEmotionalWarmInviting Author:Moby
“My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.” WritingTryingKindI CanBookDoneStoriesSeemsMightNextSleepWalksAudienceEmotionalHairMonthsPeriodsOne DayLateLowsTradeDearChecksInstanceWanderGet BackUnusualMailNext DayDetachmentHighs And LowsItchingSleep Late Author:Daniel Handler
“Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.” ThinkingMemoriesPowerfulEmotionalSmellExcitementScentPerfumeOur MemoriesHarness Author:Cate Blanchett
“For me it's really tough because you have to go to that place where you really, really don't want to go to or revisit. After the first movie, when I was crying at the altar, whenever I would think about it, I would get chills for months after the first "Best Man" because I had to go to that place. And then, here we are with this one, and we are going to that place again. It's just extremely emotional to just have to keep revisiting it, but it can also be therapeutic.” ThinkingMenWantFirstsCryEmotionalMonthsToughChillAltarsTherapeutic Author:Morris Chestnut
“But I'm not superstitious. I don't really eat dinner before I go on stage, because digesting a lot of food kind of shuts you down. And I try not to get involved in emotional conversations with anyone beforehand either, so I've got a clear head.” TryingKindClearStageEmotionalGoes OnInvolvedConversationDown AndDinnerGet InvolvedSuperstitiousClear Head Author:Michael Bolton
“At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a two million dollar independent film. I did a lot more physical work than I'd probably have to do for a two million dollar independent film with four months of training and stuff. But as far as the character's psychology or emotional life goes, I treat it just the same.” IfsTwoEndsCharacterStoriesFilmStuffMillionsPsychologyFourEmotionalMonthsTrainingTreatsIndependentDollarsTreatedVersionsThe End Of The DayMillion DollarsIndependent FilmEmotional Life Author:Colin Farrell