Best emotional & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.”

Ifs Way War Matter Kids Talking Minutes Emotional Needed Shapes Adults Contact Life And Death One Minute Handy Emotional Life Way Of Talking

Author:Richard Louv

“Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.”

People Ifs Life Is Certain Actors Emotional Planets Performances Primaries Vocabulary Percentages

Author:Mary McDonnell

“If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.”

Ifs Giving Feels Kind Important Emotional Connections Familiar Emotional Connection

Author:Marc Newson

“If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.”

Ifs Emotional Ready Scene Basketball Playing Basketball

Author:Emilie de Ravin

“It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.”

Ifs Children Hard Helping Kids House Childhood Emotional Lucky Our Children Legacy Remembered Your Children Distinction Lucky You

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Children Important Home Mother Asks Parent Emotional Depends Picks Fulfilled Stay At Home Emotional Life Plath

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.”

Ifs Knows Emotional Lows Validity Highs And Lows Scorpios

Author:Chely Wright

“If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.”

Ifs Levels Emotional Married Practicals

Author:Sean Young

“Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.”

Ifs Writing Hard Plans Emotional Harder Emotional Things

Author:Lauren Miller

“A great brand taps into emotions. Emotions drive most, if not all, of our decisions. A brand reaches out with a powerful connecting experience. It's an emotional connecting point that transcends the product.”

Ifs Decision Powerful Emotion Emotional Products Brands Reach Out Connecting

Author:Scott Bedbury

“When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.”

People Ifs Used Stuff Situation Emotional Humour Serious Jokes Tools Cracks Deep Emotional

Author:Matthew Perry

“Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run.”

Source: First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently

“I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.”

Ifs Feels I Can Enough Political Social Emotional Commitment Roots Indian Canada Expatriates

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing.”

Ifs Want Moving Certain Can Do One Thing Emotional Fine Strive Core

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe.”

“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Faces Certain Streets Dying Cry Emotional Empty Died Silly Newspapers Remembered Numbness

Book:Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

Source: Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

“It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.”

Ifs Emotional Musician Music Is Betrayal Betray Good Business Blackmail

Author:Tori Amos

“Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.”

Ifs Long Advice Emotional Needed Anger Outburst Emotional Outbursts

Author:Peter McWilliams

“I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I felt. I didn't mince words, so to speak. If I felt bad, I let you know that I felt bad. If I felt you were playing sorry, I told you. If I was playing sorry, I told myself that. I came from an era when losing really hurt. I didn't see anything good about it.”

Ifs Knows Speak Felt Hurt Emotion Player Emotional Losing Sorry Eras Sleeves

Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.”

Ifs Way Persons Tears Emotional Products Things To Do Right Thing Candidates Acceptable Right Person

Author:Frank Luntz

“Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.”

Ifs Wisdom Motivational Emotional Goes On Criticism Determine Emotional Intelligence Justified Feelings And Emotions Overcoming Depression Depression Inspirational Emotions Feelings

Book:The Positive Principle Today

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.”

Ifs Kind Can Do Break Emotional Listening Concerts Relaxed Listening To Music Can Do Something

Author:Walt Disney

“If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between both of you over a period of time. You can be thousands of miles away from your teacher and find that induction is always taking place. That's the ideal.”

Ifs Wells Teacher Meditation Emotional Periods Ideals Miles Enlightened Miles Away Deep Emotional

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.”

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value.”

Ifs Values Women Emotional Appreciate Shallow

Author:Valerie Estelle Frankel

“The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.”

People Ifs Feels Important Motivational Creative Emotional Notion Hobbies Waiver

Author:Seth Godin

“The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading… I know this will sound like a cliché, but the single most important reason that people lose money in the financial markets is that they don't cut their losses short.”

People Ifs Knows Important Reason Would Be Sound Loses Loss Cutting Emotional Keys Discipline Financial Making Money Trading Financial Markets

Author:Victor Sperandeo

“Infertility is this huge emotional roller coaster. If you want in your heart more than anything to have a baby, it's the hardest thing you will ever go through physically, emotionally, and financially.”

Ifs Want Heart Emotional Huge Baby Hardest Hardest Thing Roller Coaster Coasters Infertility

Author:Cindy Margolis

“In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.”

Ifs Term Emotional Happenings

Author:Judd Apatow

“If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.”

People Ifs Enough Remember Asks Emotional Painting Elements Photograph Shakes Description Accurate Viewers Intertwined

Author:Luc Tuymans

“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.”

People Ifs Should Mean Self Enjoy Prayer Emotional Praying Enlightenment Satisfaction Obvious Valuable Vanity Ritual Beneficial Indulgence Stimulus Observance Self Indulgence Fixation

Book:Seeker After Truth

Source: Seeker After Truth

“There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.”

Ifs Mistake Emotional Misunderstanding Incompatibility

Author:Dada Vaswani

“If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.”

Ifs Important Seems Artist Century Emotional Painting Importance Contact

Author:James Elkins

“If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.”

Ifs Knows Emotional Letting Go Ships Managers Wheels Frustrated Steers Can't Let Go

Author:Kirk Gibson

“Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn't get all its oil from OPEC.”

Ifs Men States Girl Nations United Boys United States Emotional Oil Contact Suspects Powerless Homophobia Sissy Opec

Author:Warren Farrell

“You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.”

“3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Reason Use Certain Sound Emotional Tools Add Colour Layers Saviour

Author:Tim Burton

“If you can get the audience to talk to the screen, I just thought that was so cool, and I wanted to do that. And I just leaned towards the scary and the thriller. I find it very emotional. I want to make emotional horror. If I can make you cry, than you have a full experience.”

Ifs Want I Can Wanted Audience Cry Emotional Horror Scary Screens Thrillers Make You Cry

Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.”

“I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They lose sight of why they are telling the story. They don't let the characters actually speak. Characters will start to dictate the story in sometimes surprising, emotional, and funny ways. If the writers are not open to those surprises, they're going to strangle the life, spark, or spirit out of their work.”

Ifs Way Book Sometimes Character Stories Spirit Speak Loses Worry Emotional Sight Surprise Comic Plot Sparks Surprising Comic Book

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”

Ifs Self Matter Hands Able Ability Emotion Awareness Emotional Smart Empathy Self Awareness Intelligence Manage Emotional Intelligence Distressing No Empathy

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of golf. Professionals invariably trudge phlegmatically around the course - whatever emotions are seething within - with the grim yet placid and bored look of cowpokes, slack-bodied in their saddles, who have been tending the same herd for two months.”

“I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Song Levels Emotional Criteria

Author:Robbie Robertson

“They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.”

Ifs Seeing Emotional Separation Sensations

Book:Lucy Carmichael

Source: Lucy Carmichael

“Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.”

Ifs Kind Would Be Information Emotional Photography Photographer Photograph Pounds Documentaries Haiku Documentary Photography

Author:Sally Mann

“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.”

Ifs Important Reason Lying Dies Reading My Own Written Emotional Mental Health Genre

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Energy Deals Plans Emotional Collapse Organisms Atrophy Emotional Life

Book:The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven

Source: The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven

“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.”

Ifs Shows Today Known Emotional Theory Tomorrow Findings Investment Yesterday Fantastic Strings String Theory Emotional Investment

Author:Brian Greene

“the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.”

Source: Streaks of life

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