“The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.” PeopleQualityEmotionalInvestmentSurroundLongevityQuality Of LifeEmotional Investment Author:Lee Johnson
“My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.” IfsShowsTodayKnownEmotionalTheoryTomorrowFindingsInvestmentYesterdayFantasticStringsString TheoryEmotional Investment Author:Brian Greene
“We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult to give them up....Because they were made at a time of life when we were utterly dependent on them, the love attachments of infancy have inordinate power over us, more than any other emotional investment.” GivingHumansPersonsMadeDifficultEmotionalInvestmentPossessionDependentAttachmentInfancyEmotional Investment Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“I think you approach a part the same way and just find out in what's making them tick and who they are. In a movie like this you may have a little less time and few dialogue scenes and exposition scenes for your character to really get that across, and so I wanted to be able to convey that she's not somebody who's just punching a clock but she has this weird emotional investment in her job to where she does get quite myopic and that's what makes her relentless.” ThinkingWayMayLittlesDoeCharacterAbleWantedJobsEmotionalSceneApproachInvestmentDialogueClockRelentlessTickPunchingMyopicEmotional Investment Author:Kate Beckinsale
“You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.” IfsEmotionalInvestmentEmotional Investment Author:Biz Stone
“My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.” MenYearsFirstsI CanAgeGoneYouthEmotionalDramaSceneLogicInvestmentNotionTimingConnectingEmotional Investment Author:Tom Courtenay
“If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally, then it's dead to me. When I'm reading other fiction writers, if I don't get any emotional investment from the writer, if it's just intellectual or clever - you know, most writing that passes as deep is just clever - I don't feel any connection.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingCertainReadingFictionEmotionalIntellectualConnectionsInvestmentConnectedCleverLiftsParagraphFiction WritersEmotional Investment Author:Oscar Hijuelos
“You have to have that emotional investment in the jokes that you're saying otherwise they actually don't work. You can say exactly the same thing, but if you don't believe it's funny at the time that you're saying it, it won't be.” IfsBelieveEmotionalJokesInvestmentDon't BelieveEmotional Investment Author:John Bishop