“For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.” FirstsKindI CanImportantSpiritualChallengesSupportEmotionalPainfulDivorceRecommendationsEmotional SupportGoing Through Divorce Author:Alana Stewart
“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.” WritingFirstsBelieveWellsIdeasHardGamesLostBornPerfectAcceptingEmotionalPercentEssenceOddsEquityRewritingWriting Well Author:William Zinsser
“What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.” FirstsLooksKindArtArtistPiecesEmotionalIntellectualFirst TimeCombinationSomething New Author:Cheech Marin
“The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art.” FirstsMeanArtRealFormSongEmotionEmotionalComfortMelancholyBeing Real Author:Keren Ann
“As long as we are focusing on the breath we do not feed our mental, emotional, and physical patterns. By returning to the breath again and again we start to dissolve their power. We develop a space between experience and our identification with it, thereby weakening the process that creates habits in the first place.” FirstsLongProcessSpaceEmotionalHabitBreathsPatternsAgain And AgainIdentificationSpace BetweenWeakening Author:Martine Batchelor
“Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.” MenFirstsLongBodyHandsSidesInterestingResultsEmotionalReaderAchievementMarkCriticalEndlessWorking ItLooking BackPreferenceUpper Hand Author:John Galsworthy
“I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.” ThinkingFirstsHumansChildrenSocialWealthAbilityRaceResponsibilityStepsPlansEmotionalKeysSurvivalIntellectualToolsOur ChildrenMajorityHuman RaceCollectivesFirst StepsImprovingStorytellerEducatorCommunicators Author:George Lucas
“First and foremost, I'd say my father, Bert Lahr ... gave me a love of theatre--its kinetic and emotional potential and its raffish backstage fun--and also set an artistic example of the importance of corrupting an audience with pleasure.” FirstsFatherFunPleasureAudienceExampleEmotionalImportanceTheatreArtistic Author:John Lahr
“I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.” FirstsHumansLongTwoReasonRememberKnowingSawsSeeingDangerousEmotionalHairTypeHorrorTransformationScaryLegsMoodAppealsKicksSuspectsDreadLimbsWerewolfGeeseClawsHybridFingernailsEmotional Appeal Author:Glen Duncan
“There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that people tend to get emotional about. After all, money involves, and always has involved, something closely akin to faith-which probably explains why in many past societies the money system has been in the hands of a priesthood, the subject of magical rites, and the ceremonial services of the tribe's medicine man.” PeopleMenFirstsHas BeensReasonWisdomHandsPastPoliticsEconomySubjectsEmotionalInvolvedMedicineReason WhyLiberalismTribesMonetaryPriesthoodRiteGeneral PublicMonetary System Author:Wright Patman
“My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half.” ThinkingFirstsHomeNightGamesHalfEmotionalRemainsLoudExhaustedTigersMondayStadiumsBumpsGeeseKatrinaTennesseeTypingRougeLsuBatonMonday NightFirst HomeBaton RougeTiger Stadium Author:Pat Forde
“At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.” IfsKnowsWritingMindFirstsStatesEmotionComedyEmotionalSkillsJokesIntentionStartingAdjustingWriting Comedy Author:Steve Martin
“The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to make it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger--violence, vandalism, disrespect--of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates.” PeopleWorldNeedsFirstsHumansWellsReasonSchoolYoungSupportViolenceEmotionalSkillsPropertyRateFrustrationSuspectsCherishDisrespectYoung LoveHuman NeedsEmotional SupportDropoutsVandalismBurglaryBasic Human Needs Author:James P. Comer
“My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing her, my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing, Terry, and very emotional.” YearsFirstsKindSelfLightMotherFoundBornKnowingHappenedSelf EsteemEmotionalMomFindingsMy MomEsteemPregnantShedDetroitWere Pregnant Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.” FirstsBookCharacterHomeActorsCryEmotionalInvolvedMovieWrapsSo Sad Author:Salma Hayek
“It seemed like so much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or emailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants. I think it's sort of shifted the energy of that first romantic meeting, where it's quicker, perhaps more desperate, more energetic, in a whole different way, and it's resulted in a situation where people seem to be sometimes more comfortable having a sexual relationship than an emotional one.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsKindDifferentSometimesWholeSeemsTodayEnergyRoomsSituationEmotionalComfortableDistanceMeetingsDifferent WaysDesperateEnergeticParticipantsTextingRomantic Relationship Author:Ivan Reitman
“First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.” FirstsPlayWould BeImaginationDecisionCareersEmotionalDirectorsResourcesLife ExperienceCriteria Author:Nicolas Cage
“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
“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
“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
“First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.” WayFirstsAbilityEmotionalConversationTasksIncrediblesAssetsOne TimeMultipleSensitivityDocumentariesIntimidatingBeing A Woman Author:Ondi Timoner
“The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.” WayWritingFirstsTwoBookIdeasReasonSeemsEmotionalMaterialsIntellectualDrawsPsychologicalMotiveUnconsciousTwo Ways Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.” WayFirstsKindBookLove IsStepsForeverEmotionalReaderShapesAffairIntimateFirst LoveLove AffairKinds Of LoveTenacious Author:Laura Miller
“I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.” FirstsImportantChoicesLiteratureSocialStudyExampleEmotionalReaderSkillsTestsFavorsCriteriaRichnessSimplifyHeartbreakingCurriculumAdeptEither OrStudying Literature Author:Nicholas Lemann
“Crucial to how we feel is being aware of how we are feeling in the moment. The sine qua non of that is to realize that you are being emotional in the first place. The earlier you recognize an emotion, the more choice you will have in dealing with it. In Buddhist terms, it's recognizing the spark before the flame. In Western terms, it's trying to increase the gap between impulse and saying or doing something you might regret later.” FeelsTryingFirstsMomentsFeelingsMightChoicesTermRealizingEmotionEmotionalRegretIncreaseWesternBuddhistImpulseFlamesGapsSparksCrucialRecognizingDealing With It Author:Paul Ekman
“It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. By nature, we are emotional creatures. Often we live and react based on feelings, not logic. Feelings are wonderful, but when we become tied to a particular thought or belief we tend to ignore the fact that change might be necessary.” FirstsIdeasFactsFeelingsMightBeliefDifficultWonderfulEmotionalParticularCreaturesLogicRemoveTied Author:Gordon Livingston
“... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.” PeopleFirstsLooksMayStatesFactsLastsFacesSleepEmotionalPhotographyPhotographExtremesIntimacyIntensityReserves Author:Adam Gopnik
“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
“I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsWellsKindEndsPainUsedWalksSawsEmotionalGrewGrew UpSingingBreathsOriginalsBarsAll KindsTacticsEmotional PainDeep BreathTake A Deep BreathOutrun Author:Jewel
“I've very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn't have him in my life. It was good to cry it out, and just scream, or call my friends in the middle of the night crying.” IfsWorldFirstsEndsNightDiesMiddleCryEmotionalMy FriendsBreakupScreamEnd Of The WorldMiddle Of The Night Author:Selena Gomez
“The center for me is my heart, actually, and my emotional connection with the work. That's where authenticity comes from. It's also the first thing that hits me about other people's work, or watching other people perform, "Do I believe the person?" Even if I don't like what someone is doing or if I don't like the sound, if I believe them, I do like them. I am able to appreciate them as an artist.” PeopleIfsFirstsBelieveHeartPersonsAbleArtistI BelieveSoundEmotionalMy HeartAppreciateConnectionsAuthenticityEmotional Connection Author:Mirah
“I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.” PeopleWritingFirstsEndsStoriesNovelEmotionalResearchHistoricalCoreHistorical Novels Author:Jami Attenberg
“After three days of shooting with Donald [ Sutherland], I was the only one he worked with for the first three days of the movie [The Winter Of Our Discontent] because of the crazy schedule. We [shot] a lot of this stuff, some of it incredibly intense and emotional. We had never had a conversation during that whole time. We didn't have time.” FirstsWholeThreeStuffCrazyEmotionalConversationShotsWinterIntenseShootingSchedulesDiscontent Author:Richard Masur
“Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would have a mantle full of gold statuettes. Then I take stock and seek counsel from people I trust and talk myself into a state of reflection and remember that it won't last forever.” PeopleIfsFirstsStatesMomentsPainLastsRememberGivenForeverEmotionalReflectionGoldHandleAwardsEmotional Pain Author:Danielle Cormack
“I happen to be a very passionate person, so when I first feel emotional pain, I take it very hard. I'll more than likely have a mild breakdown for a few moments, but I allow myself to feel these emotions, release them, and learn to use that hurt as my strength for change. I believe that you can take all experiences and use them as knowledge and fuel to be a better person.” FeelsFirstsBelievePersonsHardMomentsUseHappensPainI BelieveHurtEmotionEmotionalPassionateReleaseFuelBreakdownBetter PersonEmotional PainBeing A Better Person Author:Allison Holker
“I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.” WorldWritingTryingFirstsStillsFeelingsTodayDesireGrowsSpaceEmotionalGrewProtectGrew Up Author:Elena Ferrante
“I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals.” ThinkingShouldFirstsUseTurnsHonestyEmotionalLoved OnesDistress Author:Peter Kinderman
“Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.” YearsFirstsEmotionalCoupleMapsCaregiversYears Of Life Author:Philippa Perry
“I have insanely dorky taste. Basically, if you're a woman, and you're under any kind of emotional duress, and you sing a song, I will listen to it forever. It's odd being a 37-year-old heterosexual male who owns nothing but Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos. But I'll go against that at first and play something boring like James Taylor.” IfsYearsFirstsKindPlaySongForeverEmotionalTasteMalesBoringOddDorkyDuress Author:Matthew Perry
“In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal level.It was called 'spousal impoverishment' and it meant that for one person [to go into] a nursing home, the family [ ], could go near bankruptcy, and then they'd end up with a lien on the family farm or the home. And so I wanted to change that.” FirstsPersonsEndsHomeWantedTogetherTermLevelsIssuesEmotionalFarmsNursingVery DeepBankruptcyNursing HomeTed KennedyFamily FarmsDeep Emotional Author:Barbara Mikulski
“Say the prayer first thing in the morning when you open your eyes; then say it again before you go to sleep. Dream the prayer. Feel the prayer with your emotional body. Be the prayer; align your faith and intent with the prayer until your whole life is based on this prayer.” FeelsFirstsWholeDreamBodyEyeLife IsPrayerSleepMorningEmotionalWhole LifeGoing To SleepSleep Dream Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz
“To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, "Who Came First" is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what that emotional timbre what is my favorite, my favorite "why" is the question. The other songs also have a revealing quality, but it started with "Sister OK".” IfsWorldFirstsKindSongQualityEmotionalAskingMy FavoriteRevealingSymphonyKevinTimbre Author:Andy Kim
“And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.” KnowsFirstsHumansWellsMeanStillsTodayEmotionalAdultsInterviewsCried Author:Melanie Martinez
“My mom has kind of been more of the emotional support system. One time I was really feeling all out of it, just dealing with a lot of cooks in the kitchen and adjusting to what it means to be in the music industry, and I called her. One of the first things she said to me was 'You have to be thankful that these people even like you, no one liked me, at all, I was not really accepted for a very long time.'” PeopleFirstsKindMeanLongSaidFeelingsSupportEmotionalLike YouMomIndustryLong TimeMy MomAcceptedCooksKitchenOne TimeBeing ThankfulMusic IndustryAdjustingSupport SystemsEmotional SupportCooks In The Kitchen Author:Jillian Hervey
“I don't really remember much before was eight, but I do remember that my dad brought me to drop me off at my grandmother's house, and he was a very emotional guy, but that was the first time I really saw him cry, cos I knew it killed him to have to give me up, but he knew I needed some family structure. That was the last time I'd see him or talk to him when he was sober for the next 10 years.” GivingYearsFirstsLastsRememberGuyNextHouseSawsCryEmotionalNeededDadFirst TimeGive MeStructureMy DadEightGrandmotherLast TimeSoberMy Grandmother Author:Diamond Dallas Page
“I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a book for the intellectual or the mental part of it, but, the first time, I just like to reach out and grab you, pull you in.” IfsWantFirstsBookWould BeEmotionalReaderIntellectualFirst TimeReach Out Author:Stephen King
“The early 2000s for me were a very emotional time, politically. I'd been through Reagan and been through first Bush and Clinton, and it's not like I had an easy time through those years. But I just thought it was particularly rough. I have to say the World Trade Center attack was very weird for me. The events that followed were worse. It was a really long swath of time.” WorldYearsFirstsLongEasyEventsEmotionalTradeClintonRoughReally LongWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Ted Leo
“I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene came before the explanation of what was going on. There was a reverse chronological order as well as a concealment of what exactly was going on. I think often that comes out of the fear of being boring, and sometimes I think it's just an attempt to seem clever.” ThinkingFirstsWellsSometimesStoriesBigsSeemsOrderEmotionalSceneImpactBoringCleverExplanationAgain And AgainReverseConfusingConcealment Author:Alice Mattison
“My music is very raw, it's emotional, and it's honest. I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music because I want to paint the most vivid picture that tells a story whether a person is falling in love for the first time or going through a painful heartbreak.” WantWritingFirstsPersonsStoriesFallHonestEmotionalMusic IsFirst TimePaintFalling In LovePainfulVivid Author:Adrian Marcel
“You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy.” ThinkingFirstsMayFeelingsNextStuffEmotionOne ThingEmotionalKeep GoingThrillFickle Author:Joyce Meyer