“I've always been interested in tht notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.” CultureEmotionEmotional Author:Meghan Daum
“We met a couple months before the In the Land of Blood and Honey filming started. Angelina Jolie said, "Whatever you want, just ask for it." So we sat down and talked about it. She was great from the beginning, saying that this is essentially a story of my kind, my experience, my war, my country. In a way, she was giving us blank check to fill in the emotional landscape and do our best, really. She was really supportive and kind and open and creative.” GivingKindWarCountryCreativeEmotionalCoupleSatSupportive Author:Goran Kostic
“Sex is something I live very well, but it is something I revealed very slowly in my fashion. What I do is emotional. For me, there is a base, which is my Italian roots. It's a strong passion for fashion, a passion for sensuality and dressing for one's self.” PassionStrongFashionEmotionalSensualityItalian Author:Riccardo Tisci
“I think things go wrong when there's not a very specific plan and specific emotional roadmap. You need to know what a scene needs to get across, and what story point that needs to be advanced, whether it's discovering someone for the first time or whether it's seeing a relationship get strained. What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything.” ThinkingEnvironmentEmotionalSceneFirst Time Author:Paul Feig
“Success is not in obtaining the thing. Because there's always another thing. And then you look back on it, and for me, through my evolution, yes I have success by most measures - but for me, when it comes to the greatest joy of reward, there's an emotional element and there's an intellectual element. Emotionally, my greatest joy was the personal relationships I've had. That was the greatest joy. Intellectually, my satisfaction was that I do feel I've evolved well and I'm doing my best to contribute toward evolution.” JoyEmotionalEvolutionIntellectual Author:Ray Dalio
“I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.” WritingTryingCharacterMotivationUnderstandingEmotionalResponseBoringAfghanistan Author:Rory Stewart
“I stay out of the sun, and if I'm in the sun, I'm wearing SPF. I protect my skin as much as I can; I learned that a long time ago. I also exercise every day and I get the endorphins going. It's important not only for my physical self but also for my mental self and my emotional self. I'm healthy, I eat well most of the time, I take care of myself and I drink a lot of water. But I also enjoy myself. Taking care of yourself doesn't have to be painful, it's about finding the right balance, I think.” ThinkingLongImportantCareEnjoyWaterEmotionalBalanceExerciseDrinkHealthyProtectSkinsPainfulTake CareTake Care Of Yourself Author:Amanda Seyfried
“I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.” ThinkingSometimesEmotionalJudgment Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.” PeopleEmotionalResponse Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money. There are also so many emotional aspects to money - feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.” WorldRealCharacterFeelingsMovingSecurityEmotionalTrainAbsenceNot SureReal WorldUnrealTaxiInadequacy Author:Akhil Sharma
“I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.” TogetherFatherEmotional Author:David Bowie
“I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more toward the expressive. I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that. We just have to understand that it's the product of technology and of the way people live now.” PeopleThinkingDoneCultureTechnologyEmotionalAmerican CultureContemplative Author:Dinesh D'Souza
“A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.” ThinkingMeanDifferentSongInterestingEmotionalMusic IsAffairCartoon Author:Damon Albarn
“My interest in music tends toward being orchestral music. And the repertoire of music that exists is, to me, far more emotive than what is standardly used in movie scores. That isn't always. I think there've been some excellent movie scores by excellent directors. But for the most part, watching a film, one of today's movies, I think that the emotional undertone of movie scores is pretty poor.” ThinkingFilmInterestPoorEmotionalExcellent Author:Crispin Glover
“Churches typically argue is that God wants God's people to have a good life, and that a good life involves prosperity. This prosperity is not just emotional well-being, spiritual well-being, or physical well-being - it's also having good stuff. Having a nice house, a nice car, good clothing, etc. It's a package deal.” PeopleSpiritualHouseChurchNiceCarEmotionalProsperityArguingGood Life Author:Anthony B Pinn
“I had brief glimpses of emotional catharsis while writing. I remember reading something Philip Roth wrote about how he writes every single day, but it's almost as if he has amnesia every morning - he has almost zero confidence that anything will come but he just sits down and plugs away. And at the end of the day it feels like a miracle: "How did I do that?" I had a similar experience where it was just about putting in the hours and being present.” WritingRememberReadingHoursMorningEmotionalMiracleEvery MorningAmnesiaPhilip Author:Annie E. Clark
“I think entire social groups are formed through technologies that could never exist in the real world, and relationships that are a function of these technologies' ability to accelerate feeling and emotional contact.” ThinkingWorldRealFeelingsAbilityTechnologyEmotionalReal World Author:Atom Egoyan
“I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the word "apartheid." It's provocative, but it was like a nuclear bomb in Israel. And yet that word is used all the time in the Israeli press. There's a double standard there. He probably picked it up in Israel, as it's commonly discussed. I'd be a little surprised if he understood how it was going to be used against him. He doesn't have a highly developed emotional detector. As a politician, that was a weakness.” ThinkingGivingEmotionalPoliticianWeaknessIsraeliJimmyProvocativeApartheidDouble StandardNuclear Bomb Author:Lawrence Wright
“Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away. As a writer, my interest has become in writing about much more emotional, personal topics. I'm trying to reach into subjects I have never written about before.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingLongEnoughPastInterestEmotionalBoringGoing Away Author:John Boyne
“I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power in this culture. They mainline directly into a whole series of emotional reactions and understandings of American patriotism, masculinity, and all of these other things.” ThinkingWarTodayCultureUnderstandingEmotionalIncrediblesOur RelationshipMasculinity Author:Phil Klay
“I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into human emotion at those times of life when it's so important. And to see and witness those times of grief and love and loss and all those things was such a huge privilege, both in my own personal life, but it also, I think, spills over into my writing. I think the one thing that most novelists have is some degree of emotional intelligence, and if you don't have that, then perhaps you might struggle to be a novelist, because that has to come out somewhere.” ThinkingWritingImportantAgeLossGriefEmotionStruggleEmotionalInsightWitnessNursePersonal LifeLove And Loss Author:Christie Watson
“I think that we as humans have this intuition that we should be afraid, in order to protect us from things, or be afraid in order to prepare us against things. In most emotional situations you cannot prepare, so it is really just a waste of energy. I just realised all of this - that being scared and putting my body into a serious stress situation - was actually hurting me more and wasn't making me feel healthier and was actually making me sicker when I was dealing with my disease.” ThinkingEnergyHurtSituationEmotionalSeriousProtectStressScaredIntuitionBeing Scared Author:Ane Brun
“There is a lot of new research about how stress hormones affect your body and how you can work on giving your body as much of the good hormones as possible, because that heals your body. I am quite a rational person - so when someone could show me that there was a rational way of seeing fear in terms of stress hormones, it was easier for me to understand. I think all autoimmune diseases are very sensitive to stress. It is typical that the flares come after a period of emotional stress. The connection is quite clear.” ThinkingGivingTermEmotionalStressHealRationalSensitiveShow Me Author:Ane Brun
“Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.” NovelEmotional Author:Quiara Alegria Hudes
“What it means to be a man is to take on all the emotional pain and work through what you got to work through with the people you love while at the same time getting your business done. And it's tough. I think that most children when they grow up they kind of realize that the things they didn't like about their parents or didn't understand about them they get now and that you know every year you get more responsibilities. You get more overhead. You get more things you got to take care off.” PeopleThinkingMenKindMeanChildrenDoneCarePainParentRealizingResponsibilityGrowing UpEmotionalToughTake CareEmotional Pain Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“Turning 40 is often a big symbolic point in one's life. In the 20s we feel we can do anything, but as the 30s progress we become more mature emotionally, and in terms of work tend to focus. These two things combined: emotional maturity and career focus, often produced an explosion of self-purpose in our 40s.” TermFocusProgressEmotionalMaturityMature Author:Tom Butler-Bowdon
“The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds - the larger black world bordered us on one side. More distantly, there was the larger white world. We interacted with some, but not others. If you think of it as an internal geography, it is a land, a contested space with these very charged historical, cultural, and emotional borders.” ThinkingWorldBlackQualityEmotionalHistoricalGeography Author:Margo Jefferson
“When people hear that I have a chronic illness, they'll say things like "Focus on you." Well, my spiritual and emotional fulfillment is based not on who I am but on what I can give. Plus, many of my favorite philosophers suggested that self-fulfillment is found through service. Who am I to argue with them?” PeopleGivingSpiritualFocusEmotionalMy FavoritePhilosopherIllnessArguingFulfillment Author:Karen Duffy
“External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes the realities of a character's interior language. Poetry can encompass the same realities, but in compressed, intensified language, which creates entirely different degrees of emotional force.” WorldDifferentWarRealityLanguageEmotionalRelationProse Author:Lawrence Joseph
“Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation of the art of being able to enter a state of awareness that is deeply blissful, and beyond thought and feeling as such. Many people have become disillusioned with religions and, as such, have turned away from pursuing anything spiritual. That create a loss of sense of purpose and a lot of anger. Sure, there are all sorts of problems with organised religions, but there are also all sorts of problems with the world of 'science' too.” PeopleWorldArtFeelingsProblemSpiritualPurposeCultureLossAwarenessEmotionalAncientPsychologicalGreekDisillusioned Author:Patrick Holford
“I volunteered at UCLA's occupational therapy ward, where there are lots of kids with autism and emotional problems. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could not break down and cry at everything, and that I could just help somebody else. The one thing I really remember was that when we would take them out of the hospital for a walk around campus, they would freak out the most when we were waiting for the elevator. I remember the guy at the elevator said to himself, "Transitions are the hardest." And I said to myself, "Transitions are always the hardest."” HelpingProblemKidsRememberGuyWaitingBreakCryEmotionalProveTherapyFreakAutismBreaking Down Author:Fiona Apple
“Even when men do more housework and child care, a lot of times it's still women in charge, delegating, so you have all that noise in your brain. You're on a bike ride or picnic with your family, and it looks like leisure, but on the inside you are keeping track of everybody's emotional temperature, and did I pack this, what are the directions, how much time are we going to be here, do we have anything for dinner? It's like a toilet running all the time.” MenChildrenCareRunningBrainEmotionalTrackOur FamilyHousework Author:Brigid Schulte
“Our relationship with sleep is currently in crisis, but we're also living in a golden age of sleep science - revealing all the ways in which sleep and dreams play a vital role in our decision-making, emotional intelligence, cognitive function, and creativity. Every week, new research reveals how vital sleep is to our health, happiness, job performance, and relationships.” DreamAgeSleepCreativityWeekEmotionalCrisisOur Relationship Author:Arianna Huffington
“The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing that's being spurned - the emotional intelligence, the ethics, the beauty. It's all there. It's all so fully contained in a novel that succeeds. But at the same time, I understand the impulse to put away childish things.” ThinkingNovelEmotionalSucceedEthicsImpulse Author:Joshua Ferris
“I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.” ThinkingWishEmotionalChineseOutsiders Author:Gene Luen Yang
“What you aren't ready for being the first time in space - on an emotional and intellectual level - is how looking down at Earth will profoundly affect you. Over the long term, it has changed the way I think about planet Earth. When you go around the planet and look down, you think about the fact that this is the cradle of humanity, that this is a place where seven billion people, 200 countries, live side by side, that we share this place and there's nowhere else to go.” PeopleThinkingLongCountryEarthHumanityTermShareChangedEmotionalIntellectualFirst TimeSevenLong TermPlanet Earth Author:Marc Garneau
“I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this other happiness, and this emotional response. So, I can't be like, "that doesn't matter to me, I'm an artist, I exist apart from that!" But on the other hand, if you buy into that too much, you're setting yourself up... if I start thinking, "well, people at the show really liked one song, maybe I should write more songs like that," then I'm in trouble.” PeopleThinkingWritingArtistSongTroubleEmotionalResponseReally Happy Author:Carey Mercer
“Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems for the inauguration, I started asking deeper questions about my cultural identity, and my connection to America.” WritingSpiritualCreativeIdentityEmotionalInauguration Author:Richard Blanco
“If you stepped out of bounds, or you stepped out of your tumbling path and didn't stick it. By the time you're done, you can count your own damn deductibles to know what your score is about to be. But this is completely different, it's so subjective. There are so many variables that don't make sense. You can't quantify someone's emotional connection to what you feel.” DifferentDonePathEmotionalMake Sense Author:SZA
“Executive Intelligence is about the specific skills one must have in order to succeed in senior leadership positions, i.e. the ability to evaluate underlying assumptions, recognize the likely emotional reactions of individuals, or sense a misstep and make appropriate adjustments.” IndividualAbilityEmotionalSucceedAssumptionSeniorOrder To Succeed Author:Justin Menkes
“I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced. I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music. I wonder if it's going to go back to that. Sometimes I think it has to. As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.” PeopleThinkingBelieveSometimesI BelieveWonderEmotionalMusic IsArguingEnjoyment Author:Beck
“Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.” WorldWayMaySelfShowsGrowsBornGrowing UpEmotionalMembersRestraintRoyalIndulgenceEntitlementRoyal FamilySelf Restraint Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“First of all, "redneck" is a state of mind, not a person. So the "racist redneck" thing is a state of mind, not a geographical location. So I don't mean to imply that it's just Southerners. And if you don't recognize the racist underpinnings and the emotional reactive response you're getting from these teabaggers because we have a black president, then you are either being dishonest, or you've never seen the teabaggers.” MindMeanBlackPresidentEmotionalResponseRacistState Of MindRedneckSoutherner Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I think a huge part is how we're socialized growing up to see our value and worth as being tied into a relationship and how our culture teaches us a distorted sense of romantic love - can't live without you, can't breathe without you, I'll die without you. As teenage girls we believe that level of emotional intensity and dramatics equates with real love. We're also taught that if we date lots of people, then we're sluts, so at an early age we put all our eggs into one basket, so to speak, and concentrate on "the one".” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealAgeValuesCultureGirlSpeakTeachGrowing UpEmotionalBreatheReal LoveRomantic LoveTeenageTeenage Girl Author:Rachel Lloyd
“I love this idea of being able to touch people with something quite familiar, something quite emotional, and at the same time, have the feeling that this is a new way of doing it, a fresh way of showing things. I like radical people. At the same time, I'm fascinated by popularity, people who were able to have huge success and also keep their consistency.” PeopleFeelingsEmotionalFamiliarRadicalPopularityConsistency Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere
“I do think music and the arts are imperative for our kids for their creative learning and their emotional education, which breeds better adults. I'm doing what I can to try and pick up the slack and I applaud anyone who tries to give back to their community.” ThinkingGivingTryingArtKidsCommunityCreativeEmotionalGiving Back Author:Sarah McLachlan
“I'm pretty self-conscious, so I tend to work in a way where I say what I need to say and get out rather than revisit things. It's kind of a collage style. I realized that it had more emotional weight that way. I'll always be in the developmental stages as far as being a songwriter.” KindStyleEmotionalI Realized Author:Neko Case
“Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.” GivingWritingMomentsSongSpeakEmotional Author:Tove Lo
“I'm a very spiritual guy, very funny, emotional, I love women, I'm a playful guy. Sometimes I may get a little angry. So there's so many sides of me I want to be able to display and not be boxed in as just a trap rapper or a dope boy that wants to flex on everybody. I'm not into all of that.” SometimesSpiritualGuyBoysEmotionalRapperDope Author:Cyhi the Prynce
“Any time you do anything different in this life, it's risky. But I've only done things differently, and it's gotten me quite far. If you want to make a splash, you've got to step out on that ledge and jump. And I could land flat on my face and it would be the biggest nightmare of my life. I'm willing to risk it. I want to help change the way male chefs see females. I want to show them that, yes, we're emotional and, yes, sometimes we make irrational decisions, but we're passionate about what we do, and that passion will propel us to the next level.” DifferentSometimesDoneHelpingPassionDecisionRiskEmotionalFemalePassionateNightmareIrrationalChefRisk It Author:Giada De Laurentiis