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“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.”

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.”

Ifs Persons Helping Successful Failing Emotional Overcoming Difficulty Worthless Psychiatry Priceless Psychiatric

Book:Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy

Source: Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy

“Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.”

Ifs Self Purpose Pleasure Emotion Brain Emotional Anger Blow Cruelty Poison Destructive Substitutes Justification Justified Triggers Loathing Self Loathing Tornadoes

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.”

Ifs Knows Real Play Order Universe Acting Roles Emotional Vulnerability Theme Temporary Availability

Author:DJ Qualls

“I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.”

Ifs Thinking Film Effects Emotional Messages Visceral

Author:Aunjanue Ellis

“Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'”

Ifs Needs Persons Self Helping Difficult Situation Watches Emotional Fine Normal Trauma Indulgence Self Indulgence Emotional Trauma

Author:Lulu

“Yeah, you know, if I'm having an emotional scene I do like to go off and be by myself; not to say that I'm a method actor or anything like that, but for scenes like that that are more emotional, I do like to take that night off and not be so social.”

Ifs Knows Night Actors Social Emotional Scene Method Yeah

Author:Shay Mitchell

“I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too long, it actually becomes monotonous. When you change up your pace or your humour level, then the release is welcome... I believe that's my biggest job: tone control, and maintaining enough unity so that it all feels like one movie and all the scenes belong together, and yet diversity so that emotional and narrative interest is maintained.”

“I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.”

People Ifs Film Emotional Perfection Miracle Technique Awe Again And Again Great Film Emotional Life

Author:Ali MacGraw

“If I can listen to what he can tell me, if I can understand how it seems to him; if I can see its personal meaning for him, if I can sense the emotional flavor which it has for him, then I will be releasing potent forces of change in him.”

Ifs I Can Seems Force Emotional Communication Flavor Nonviolent Communication

Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.”

People Ifs Stills Moments Feelings Dream Light Remember Sound Quality Childhood Emotional Particular Essentials Draws Unusual Recalls Fooled Still Life

Author:Maurice Sendak

“If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.”

Ifs Self Self Esteem Emotional Esteem Rejection Hostage

Author:Brian Tracy

“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.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly.”

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Author:David Foster Wallace

“If I've had a bad day, if I'm feeling stressed out, if I'm feeling overwhelmed - it takes it all away. It's my antidote for everything. If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.”

Ifs Feels Feelings Emotional Feel Better Overwhelmed Bad Day Antidote Stressed Upheaval Stressed Out Had A Bad Day Feeling Overwhelmed

Author:Kelly Ripa

“If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.”

Ifs Feels Emotional Feel Better Upheaval

Author:Kelly Ripa

“If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.”

Ifs Emotional Harmony Intellect Emotional Life

Author:Richard Wilhelm

“There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.”

“Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.”

Ifs Knows Lying Culture Emotional Pops Credit Smell Teenager Being Yourself Pop Culture Sophistication Millennials Don't Lie

Author:John Green

“I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.”

Ifs Knows Philosophy Feelings Loss Emotional Digital Materiality

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.”

Ifs Feels Able Social Emotional Protection Guides Handle Formulas Feel Better Ceremony Involvement

Book:Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living

Source: Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living

“I do have commitment phobia, which I think is underlied by death anxiety. I feel that if you are in a relationship, there is a real genuine possibility of plateauing, and there is a possibility for a creative, emotional and spiritual death because of it. Only part of me feels this way, but it's enough to create an anxiety which makes me think twice before committing.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Real Enough Spiritual Creative Possibility Emotional Anxiety Commitment Genuine Think Twice Phobia Spiritual Death

Author:Alex Karpovsky

“You don't have to be kind. You have to be calm. Once you start showing that people can affect your emotions, then you obviously don't have that much power. If a stewardess can affect your emotional life, then you don't have any power in life and you just showed your whole hand.”

People Ifs Kind Whole Hands Emotion Emotional Calm Be Kind Emotional Life Stewardess

Author:Vincent Kartheiser

“If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.”

Ifs Trying Goal Emotional Connections Accomplish Quitting Odds Emotional Connection Accomplish Your Goals

Author:Brett Hoebel

“If your thoughts are thoughts that draw low-frequency energy current to you, your physical and emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow, whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy current to you create physical and emotional health.”

Ifs Energy Attitude Emotional Health Disease Lows Draws Currents Frequency Emotional Health

Author:Gary Zukav

“If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.”

Ifs Persons Light Grows Differences Simple Emotional Judgment Capable Ordinary Evidence Prejudice Resistance Contradiction Exposed Bias Threatened Misconception New Knowledge Rectify

Author:Gordon Allport

“By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.”

“You can't have the space for prosperity and success when you are obsessed with security. It is not possible to obtain unwavering security - physical, emotional, or economic - by having money. Keep in mind that security, like success, can be defined in many ways. If you focus less on how much your financial assets are worth, and more on what a creative and well-balanced individual you can be, security will take on a new meaning.”

Ifs Way Mind Wells Individual Space Creative Focus Economic Security Emotional Financial Prosperity Defined Obsessed Assets Balanced Unwavering

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally.... Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.”

Ifs Feels Children Helping Parent Emotional Limits Our Children Active Your Children Heat Finding Yourself Involvement Children And Parents Toddler

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.”

Ifs Feels Years May Real Hard Done Social Emotional Cost Essentials Towns Assuming Selfish Obsession Vain Forty Submit Ownership Hateful Narcissistic Our Words Egotistical

Author:Richard Hugo

“Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes a degree off track it will take the viewer in the wrong emotional direction. To work with people who actually care about that is a good thing.”

People Ifs Care Film Emotional Degrees Music Is Bird Good Things Track Viewers Brad

Author:Michael Giacchino

“If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.”

Ifs Happens Able Film Difficult Audience Cry Emotional Portions Get Real Screening Clockwork

Author:Michael Pitt

“People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“I can listen to the same song back-to-back for two to three hours straight. I'm not psycho; I swear. There are some songs I won't listen to any more because they are songs that helped me get to emotional places. Even if I hear it, I'll have to walk out of the room or turn it down. It sounds so strange but those things affect me in a certain way.”

Ifs Way I Can Two Certain Song Turns Three Sound Hours Walks Rooms Emotional Strange Swear Psycho

Author:Rami Malek

“Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very therapeutic, but that's best done in your journal, or on your blog if you're an exhibitionist. Trying to put a bunch of *specific* stuff from your personal life into your story usually just isn't appropriate unless you're writing a memoir or a personal essay or something of the sort.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“You gotta not care about what people think in general about you. I'm not talking about bad stuff, if you're a nasty person, because I don't consider myself a mean person, I consider that I know what i want and I'm tough. But I'm very emotional and un-tough on a lot of levels, I cry very easily, I'm sensitive and I don't think that's a bad thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Mean Persons Care Stuff Levels Talking Cry Emotional Tough Sensitive Bad Things Nasty Not Talking Bad Stuff Mean Person

Author:Joan Jett

“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.”

Ifs Wells Looks Body Spiritual Father Levels Emotional Husband Highest Intellectual Function

Author:Willi Smith

“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.”

Ifs Needs Three Courses Successful Emotional Discipline Exercise Affection Corporations Wealthy Balanced Need You Stimulation

Author:Cesar Millan

“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.”

Ifs Reason Song Fans Emotional Mad Sticks Guitar Albums Like Me Fancy Jumping Up And Down Heartfelt Yelling Being Funny Pogo Sticks

Author:Butch Walker

“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.”

“If you look at a farmer and his daily expenditure on existing energy services, it is much higher on an incremental delta basis. And then there is an emotional cost of not providing their kids with the right to educate. If you calculate these costs in economic terms and create a financing mechanism for them to buy it, the emotional delta cost is much higher compared to their household.”

Ifs Looks Kids Energy Term Economic Emotional Higher Cost Bases Farmers Educate Mechanism Household Providing Expenditures Financing Delta

Author:Ramon Magsaysay

“Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.”

Ifs Lying Actors Emotional Good Relationship

Author:Kristen Stewart

“It's hard to generalize about that subject because the women I've worked with have all been so different. But if there's one consistency, it might be that you do have to handle yourself differently on a set. Women can be more emotional - at least they sometimes show it more.”

Ifs Different Sometimes Hard Shows Might Subjects Emotional Handle Consistency

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn't think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.”

Ifs Thinking Important Audience Rich Emotional Manners Grounded Tics

Author:Kate Winslet

“Valentine's Day is much more of a holy day of obligation for a guy in a relationship with a woman, because a woman has certain emotional expectations. Even if she doesn't value Valentine's Day, or views it as a corporate exercise, she still often wants her boyfriend or husband to go through the motions, just in case she values it.”

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Author:Dan Savage

“I think the emotion that song carries makes it good. Because you have to produce around something - an emotional attachment and a feeling. The melody itself has a feeling in it. The keys, the tones, frequency, sonics, all of those have feelings in it. Like, it's the ghost within, the music itself. That's what makes the song even have a possibility of being great. The emotional connection. Because if you don't have that, I don't think you really have a song.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Song Emotion Possibility Produce Emotional Keys Connections Ghost Tone Carrie Attachment Melody Frequency Emotional Connection

Author:The-Dream

“I think that it is real important for someone to be really honest and open emotionally. I'm really an emotional person. If I'm that way and the guy isn't that way I just really feel like a jerk.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Persons Important Real Guy Honest Emotional Being Real Jerk Emotional Person

Author:Molly Ringwald

“But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central emotional event of the whole movie was a tree being cut down. And the entire movie, essentially, is saying, "If we let the military industrial complex trash the place that we're living in, we will have committed an epic crime."”

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Author:Edward Norton

“But when you are doing an animated voice, it has to have more energy than usual or it falls flat and doesn't work. For myself, I found that I had to put myself in the same physical or emotional state as Sid, in order to make that voice sound alive and authentic. So if there was a scene in which he was running, I would be running beforehand to sound out of breath. That's important because the audience can tell intuitively if it does not sound real.”

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Author:John Leguizamo

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