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“Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.”

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.”

Ifs Knows Looks Pain Spiritual Lying Desire Emotional Emotional Pain Spiritual Work

Author:Alan Cohen

“From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.”

“I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal, and they asked if I was doomed to explore forever the emotional misfortunes of the super-sexed modern young woman. And so, to break away from the pattern, I wanted to do "The Gorgeous Hussy". Selznick laughed at me. 'You can't do a costume picture. You're too modern.' But I begged and begged and begged, and so they let me do it. I was totally miscast.”

Ifs Needs Said Wanted Young Deals Break Forever Modern Emotional Criticism Let Me Patterns Misfortunes Laughed Young Women Doomed They Said Costumes Gorgeous Discerning New Deal Hussies

Author:Joan Crawford

“When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.”

“I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there's no chance to share emotion. Most of them are busy, [there are] explosions everywhere. So we got rid of all the background noise and we had to get rid of the guns.”

“I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.”

“The role of the opposition leader differs from that of the chancellor. If this government is to be successful, I have to take the emotional state of all partners into account. Besides, the Social Democrats didn't exactly present me with the motto "Let us dare to have more freedom" on a silver platter.”

Ifs States Government Social Leader Roles Successful Emotional Accounts Democrat Dare Partners Being Successful Opposition Silver Motto Silver Platter

Author:Angela Merkel

“I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.”

Ifs Knows Men Trying Kind Said Ends Young Fighting Father Left Emotional Grew Dad Grew Up Racism Towns My Dad Young Man Nazi Small Town Poland Anti Semitism Horrific Traumatic Experiences

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.”

Ifs Want Feels Games Loses Emotional Balance Negative Bounds Investing Satisfaction Feel Good Things To Do Criteria Wrong Things

Author:William Eckhardt

“If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.”

“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.”

Ifs Emotional Investment Emotional Investment

Author:Biz Stone

“It's not like I prepare anymore, or have to think about my son being dead to get emotional. If you're working with a good actor and you're reacting off of them and you have a good script, it just comes organically. It's just stored in your body. So that emotion will just be brought out of you, as opposed to trying to force it.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Body Actors Force Emotion Emotional Son Scripts Your Body My Son Reacting Good Actors

Author:Maria Bello

“Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.”

Ifs Knows Men Heart Use Reality Faces Known Emotional Sacred Favors Practicals Reactions Esteem Symbols Altered Emotional Reactions

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“I've seen people that get onstage and sing while they have tears running down their face - I can't do that. When I cry, it starts like in my throat, so when I have something that's really emotional, sometimes if I access that too much, I can't finish the song.”

People Ifs I Can Sometimes Running Faces Song Too Much Cry Tears Emotional Access Throat

Author:Carrie Underwood

“If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.”

Ifs Long Sometimes Issues Emotional Periods Disease Block Manifest Long Periods Of Time

Author:Brandon Bays

“You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!”

People Ifs Emotional Weakness Ruins Dependent Emotional Life

Author:Stephen Covey

“Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.”

“Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body, "How do you feel about this?" If your body sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.”

Ifs Feels Body Certain Asks Watches Emotional Comfort Behavior Your Body Distress Signals Discomfort Eagerness

Book:Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old

Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old

“Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.”

Ifs Humans Pain Pleasure Emotional Activity Laughter Importance Misery Amour Human Activity Misery And Pain

Book:Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow

“The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view. The hard part is that the investor must measure himself not by his own perceptions of his performance, but by the objective measure of the market. The market has its own reality. In an immediate emotional sense the market is always right so if you take a variant point of view you will always be bombarded for some time by conventional wisdom as expressed by the market.”

“With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's only "Look, it has famous people," then it's a wax museum come to life and that's really boring. It's sort of like what they say about science fiction and horror where the really good ones, if you remove that element of it, it still has to work. That's the reason The Shining works or Rosemary's Baby or Blade Runner.”

People Ifs Looks Stills Reason Character Levels Fiction Emotional Baby Horror Elements Science Fiction Shining Boring Instance Remove Museums Runners Blades Rosemary Blade Runner

Author:James Ponsoldt

“That's what happens with most comedies. If you watch 10 minutes and there's no joke, then you're disappointed because you're expecting jokes. The same goes for emotional movies. You have to feel something. If you don't feel anything for 10 minutes, you get bored.”

Ifs Feels Happens Watches Comedy Minutes Emotional Jokes Bored Disappointed Expecting

Author:Quentin Dupieux

“It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.”

“Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.”

“One of the things that I always think about is the emotional sophistication of animals and how much we're learning about the emotional sophistication of animals. If you're eating a pig, you're essentially eating the equivalent of a four-year-old human being.”

Ifs Thinking Years Humans Human Beings Animal Four Emotional Eating Four Years Pigs Sophistication

Author:Bryan Fuller

“I always think that if you deal with extremely emotional, even melodramatic, subject matter, as I constantly do, the best way to handle those situations is at a sufficient remove. It's like a doctor and a nurse and a casualty situation. You can't help the patient and you can't help yourself by emoting. And I don't think cinema is intended for therapy, so I object also to that huge, massive manipulation which is perpetrated on the public.”

“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .”

“I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.”

Ifs Way Want Problem Actors Felt Emotional Serious Perception Dumb Judged Emotional Problems

Author:Lisa Kudrow

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”

Author:Richard Bach

“If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!”

Ifs Form Lines Records Emotional Shapes Equal Details Granted Tone Significance Why Not Emphasis Actuality Without A Trace

Author:William Mortensen

“If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Would Be Natural Produce Emotional Degrees Response Photograph Advertising Provoking Astonishing Assistants Arranging Emotional Response Meatballs

Author:Sandy Skoglund

“I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Problem Artist Loss Emotional Photography Photograph Fortunate Tragic Installation Emotional Problems

Author:Sandy Skoglund

“In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.”

Ifs Wells Mean Ends Feelings Christian Jesus Love Is Emotion Sacrifice Produce Emotional Willing Neighbor Contrary Well Being Responding Cozy

Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Reason Emotional Painting Offers Contact No Reason

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the other person is meeting our needs. We still believe in commitment, because we know that committed relationships are good for us, but powerful voices coming from inside and outside tell us that we are suckers if we settle for less than we think we need and deserve in our marriage. Most baby boomers and their offspring carry in our heads the internalized voice of the consumer culture-to encourage us to stop working so hard or to get out of a marriage that is not meeting our current emotional needs.”

“If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.”

People Ifs Feels Player Emotional Extensions Expressive Emotional Things

Author:Gary Moore

“Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.”

Ifs Real Body Might Universe Hurt My Own Compassion Emotional Being Hurt Parts Of The Body

Author:Krishna Das

“It's an ego issue. You can bruise my ego but all bruises are healed now. Ego is through the roof again, confidence level is through the roof again. Gotta keep my attitude and positive mindset. I don't even remember the last fight. I hate to say it... I know I was emotional. I'm a real emotional person. If you put everything you have into one basket and it doesn't work, it's emotional to me. When I lose, it takes a piece of my heart away. I'm not a competitor that deals with loss well.”

“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.”

Ifs Needs Wells Bigs Half Design Emotional Empty Treats Environmental Glasses Customers Aesthetic Engineers Optimist Doing Good Pessimist Standpoint Good Design Half Full Half Empty

Author:Yves Behar

“I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a great emotional need? Do they overcome great emotional obstacles? Is it a fantastic story? I didn't set out to be a political activist. I'm just a human being who's moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.”

“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.”

Ifs World Firsts Ends Night Dies Middle Cry Emotional My Friends Breakup Scream End Of The World Middle 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.”

People Ifs Firsts Believe Heart Persons Able Artist I Believe Sound Emotional My Heart Appreciate Connections Authenticity Emotional Connection

Author:Mirah

“My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down or diagnose. And like many, if not most, writers I had the self-consciousness to recognize it made great conditions for writing.”

Ifs Writing Made Self My Own Consciousness Issues Conditions Emotional Pressure Bullying Pins Self Consciousness Emotional Health Health Issues Drafting

Author:Gregory Pardlo

“Most of the people I've been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing make-believe and really just having fun. It doesn't matter if we're blowing up cars, or shooting an emotional scene in a police station, deep inside we all know our imaginations are at work, and our imaginations are manifesting into reality - at least momentarily for the cameras to capture.”

“If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.”

Ifs Character Shows Asks Situation Audience Emotional Response Good Questions Emotional Response

Author:Charlie Cox

“I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejournal or Tumblr - excessive, sometimes automatic, sometimes enraged, emotional, while also quite intellectual - or if formal books will emerge at all, if that's not the point of these unmediated raw spaces. I'm excited by the possibility.”

Ifs Writing Book Sometimes Feelings Space Results Possibility Emotional Grew Grew Up Intellectual Excited Curious Online Formal Pouring

Author:Kate Zambreno

“If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.”

Ifs Trying Stories Term Emotional Notes Strikes Tone Crucial Pacing

Author:Kevin Keck

“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.”

People Ifs Firsts States Moments Pain Lasts Remember Given Forever Emotional Reflection Gold Handle Awards Emotional Pain

Author:Danielle Cormack

“You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.”

Ifs Process Emotional Regret Toxins

Author:Marianne Williamson

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