“I always tell people, "There's a book on everyone." I get some of that book before I do anything. If I want to deeply understand someone's reputation, I'll talk to their friends, their former bosses, their peers, and I'll learn a lot about them. I want them to be trusted. I want them to be respected. I want them to give a s - -. Then there are the intangibles: physical and emotional stamina, the ability to confront issues. I can ask all I want about those things, but I also have to see a lot of it.” PeopleIfsWantGivingI CanBookAsksAbilityIssuesEmotionalReputationFormerBossTrustedPeersStamina Author:Jamie Dimon
“You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.” IfsNeedsProblemEmotionalDrinkEmotional Problems Author:Bradford Cox
“If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.” IfsPlayCharacterThreeOpportunityRealizingLevelsEmotionalRootedVery DeepDensity Author:Sally Field
“The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.” IfsHas BeensMadeStillsEmotionalPoetHorrorLegendsExistentialSevereLensesExtremityWork And Life Author:Christian Wiman
“Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to be that smart and if you... as a boy you're not even supposed to like school. All of the sudden you've got kids who are afraid, black kids and Latino kids who are afraid to be great, afraid to bask in the enjoyment of education, lest they be labeled less than black, less than Latino, less they be called the oreo.” IfsMayFactsKidsSchoolBlackBoysEmotionalSmartSupposed To BeEnjoymentLiteracyLatinoCombiningOreosEmotional Literacy Author:John Amaechi
“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
“The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands.” IfsMenWantKindMadeTwoProblemBigsJobsHoursChallengesLevelsRoomsWifePositionEmotionalSkillsHusbandDemandIndependentRaisesSeekingOpeningCeoTerrificHeartlessBig ProblemsReceptionistsOverqualified Author:Karen Salmansohn
“By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.” IfsHeartSelfHateDifferencesEmotionalHabitBehaviorBotherJust OneCompassDrainsSelf Defeating Behavior Author:Doc Childre
“I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.” IfsKnowsWaySelfHelpingSeemsPainEmotionalHandleHelp MeLoved OnesEmotional PainSelf Medicating Author:Mpho Koaho
“In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.” IfsThinkingWayWritingHappensTermEventsEmotionalThings HappenKeep GoingRegularity Author:David Gray
“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
“If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emotional manipulation that you need to do to extend compassion to that being, because that being is a part of you, and if that being hurts, you hurt.” IfsNeedsHurtCompassionFeetEmotionalBe GoodDialogueManipulationToesBeing Hurt Author:Krishna Das
“I play drums, and I'd recommend it to anyone, except maybe your neighbors. It's great exercise - physical, mental, emotional, and social. It takes deep concentration but also activates concentration. If you're doing it right, it's always just a little harder than what you can actually pull off.” IfsLittlesPlaySocialEmotionalExerciseHarderNeighborConcentrationActivateGreat Exercise Author:Greg Saunier
“If it's physical pain, you just deal with it the best way you can. But if it's more emotional, I don't know. I just try my best to feel it, take it in, and just allow myself to go through whatever may actually come from it. And then a certain amount of it, you can use to transform it through art, which is the healthy way of dealing with it, as well.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsTryingWellsMayArtUsePainCertainDealsEmotionalAmountHealthyBest WayPhysical PainDealing With It Author:Reggie Watts
“I'm not afraid of scars, be them emotional or otherwise. I think it builds character, and if it doesn't destroy you, I truly believe it makes us stronger.” IfsThinkingBelieveCharacterEmotionalStrongerScarNot Afraid Author:Nathan Parsons
“We all have an emotional home that we keep coming back to. Even if a foundationally angry or sad person has a good job and good family, they return to their emotional home, especially when experiencing life's inevitable setbacks.” IfsPersonsHomeJobsEmotionalReturnAngryInevitableGood JobComing BackSetbackGood FamilySad Person Author:Tony Robbins
“If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it stays with you and when we are all 90, we're going to look back at those songs, and it's going to be emotional. And when someone plays it, and you know it, and you're going to go, "I know that song and I love it."” IfsKnowsLooksPlaySongEmotionalEars Author:Fred Armisen
“It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must either illuminate, thwart, or alter what the character wants. A good complication puts emotional pressure on a character, promoting that character not only to act, but to act with purpose.If the circumstance does none of these things, then it's not a complication at all - it's a situation. This situation, or setup, might be interesting or even astonishing, but it gives the story no point of departure.” IfsWantGivingWritingDoeHardCharacterStoriesMightRememberPurposeInterestingSituationEmotionalCircumstancesPressureDeterminePromotingAstonishingNo PointDepartureComplicationSetups Author:Monica Wood
“Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).” IfsThinkingWayMeanMightReligiousPowerfulMoralCasesTakenTeachingConditionsEmotionalTraditionClaimsHistoricalScriptureAestheticMetaphysicalAssertionOutdatedNonsensicalEmotional Power Author:Allen W. Wood
“It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible.” IfsWayFactsSeemsReligiousInterestingTakenEmotionalClaimsBelieverDepressingEmotional Power Author:Allen W. Wood
“I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.” IfsKnowsEndsPlayMomentsEmotionalHonestlyNarrativeMake Sense Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“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
“I still partially suffer from the delusion that if you explain things logically and systematically, most people will abandon their emotional prejudices and respond to logic. But I don't suffer from that delusion as wholeheartedly as I did in the past. So if there's a fundamental difference, it's that I've accepted the fact that most imbeciles will never 'get' me and I shouldn't allow myself to get so upset about it.” PeopleIfsStillsFactsPastSufferingDifferencesEmotionalLogicPrejudiceFundamentalsAcceptedUpsetDelusionAbandonWholeheartedlyImbeciles Author:Jim Goad
“If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She appears to be urging Ritalin caution; but, if you listen carefully, she's calling it a miracle drug: "A Godsend for emotional and behavioral problems, for both children and their parents." She insists her efforts are not an attack on the medical treatment of children's emotional well-being because the drugs are very, very "useful."” IfsWellsChildrenUseProblemParentEffortHeardEmotionalCallingDrugMiracleClintonMedicalWell BeingTreatmentUsualCautionRemarksDrug UseDemagogueryMedical TreatmentEmotional Well BeingRitalin Author:Peter Breggin
“I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.” IfsLittlesEmotionalSceneRehearsal Author:Zulay Henao
“If we define value as emotions - and emotional engagement...i.e. love!” IfsValuesEmotionEmotionalEngagement Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.” IfsMomentsCharacterChoicesActorsActingFrontsEmotionalPlanetsSceneDirectorsCreatingPerformancesCamerasTranslateApesFacialAnimator Author:Andy Serkis
“If you emote in your performances, people feel connected to you as an emotional person, because that's how we communicate. That doesn't mean people know you. At a certain point, I think you have to just be your own self.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsMeanPersonsSelfCertainEmotionalPerformancesCommunicateConnectedMean PeopleEmoteEmotional Person Author:Patricia Arquette
“The emotional build-up and anticipation if you travel at Christmas can make it harder to enjoy a trip. I think sometimes it is better to travel outside of conventional holiday times for that reason.” IfsThinkingSometimesReasonEnjoyEmotionalHarderHolidayAnticipationConventional Author:Chris Hadfield
“If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.” IfsWorldSelfStoriesCertainAcceptanceEmotionalAmountConnectionsSelf AcceptanceEmotional Connection Author:George Saunders
“One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested in education reform, they should also be interested in how they conduct themselves in front of their children. If they are homeschooling their kids, they are even more exposed, so the idea is even more important.” IfsShouldChildrenImportantIdeasHomeKidsParentFrontsEmotionalReformStabilityExposedAcademicHomeschoolingEducation ReformAcademic SuccessEmotional Stability Author:John Medina
“Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru. I always thought that if I was to be a hundred, somehow Bowie would be a hundred and fifteen. He'd be there to still steer me and guide me.” IfsFeelsStillsWould BeSpiritualLostLeaderClassGenerationsEmotionalHundredGuidesBritainFifteenWorking ClassGuruMy GenerationSteersBowieSpiritual LeaderGuide MeEmotional Things Author:Irvine Welsh
“I've just never seen a live event [like Oscar] where the emotional swings - it was just stunning.And it was interesting because, on one hand, "Moonlight" is one of these, like, generational pictures that you wanted to see win. But at the same time, if "La La Land" had won, I completely understood.” IfsHandsWantedWinningInterestingLandEventsEmotionalUnderstoodSwingsOscarsMoonlightStunning Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“I end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of adults, as if they are capable of handling both complexity and emotional responsibility.” IfsEndsMatterPoliticalLeftResponsibilityEmotionalPoliticianCapableAdultsBunchComplexityLeft And Right Author:Rachel Maddow
“Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.” IfsStillsEmotionalRobots Author:Grace Jones
“My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.” IfsStoriesLevelsEmotionalReaderMessagesStrongerMissionsImpressionIllustrating Author:Floyd Cooper
“While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.” IfsThinkingMayEmotionalConcernedToolsIronyNervesEngagementStorytellerRetreatUncool Author:Steve Erickson
“I've found that most people who are bound together legally would be a damn sight happier together -or apart -if they were released from the contract. A man-woman relationship is physical and emotional, not legal.” PeopleIfsMenWould BeTogetherFoundEmotionalSightBoundsDamnContractsMen Women Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“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
“The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form, for action in a film, for certain emotional content. We wanted to remove those things and see if we could still make a film that was a beautiful film experience, with deliberately removing things many people would expect.” PeopleIfsStillsActionWantedBeautifulFilmFormCertainEmotionalLimitsExpectationsExperimentsNarrativeRemoveSurrealism Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun.” IfsI CanFunEmotionalAngryUpsetLoyalDescribe MyselfMake Me Angry Author:Nicole Kidman
“I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.” IfsThinkingEndsCareReligiousEmotionalMessagesDon't CareHealI Don't CareInjuryThe End Of The DayMaturePace Author:Boris Kodjoe
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.” IfsLifeInspirationalHelpingWisdomMotivationalLife IsPurposePeaceGoalCommunityHurtHealingHumilityEmotionalLife PhilosophyBuddhismWise WordsWords Of WisdomAimCaringHelping OthersBuddhistThis LifeMeaning Of LifeHolinessPrimePurpose Of LifeCompassionateVolunteerSelflessnessComfortingMonkWise Man Once SaidService To OthersHurt FeelingsIntricateHelping HandTibetanFacilitateKindness And CompassionMeaning LifeTibetBeing HurtBeen HurtHelpfulnessReligious TraditionsGetting HurtCompassion For OthersBe Kind To OthersHelping Others In NeedCommon PurposeHurting OthersHurting PeopleWhat Is The Meaning Of LifeHurt So MuchDaily BuddhistBeing GenerousGot HurtHurting YouPurpose And MeaningHurt My FeelingsPeace And ToleranceOthers Helping YouGreater PurposeInspirational HealingWhat Is The Purpose Of LifeI Was HurtSilence And PeaceLife Is PainHurt And PainOur Purpose In LifeI Hurt YouHurt PainI Am HurtHe Hurt Me Author:Dalai Lama
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.” IfsThinkingDreamStepsEmotionalPersonalityConflictMadnessDistraction Author:Edwin Land
“What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.” PeopleIfsEmotionalPhotographerLandscape Author:Annie Leibovitz
“With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.” IfsCharacterBigsSchoolPainEasyActingRolesEmotionalCarefulAppropriateBe CarefulExploits Author:Laura Linney
“We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.” IfsSelfMightMovingPathStyleSelf EsteemEmotionalPerceptionUnderstoodObstaclesPracticalsEsteemSense Of SelfPersonal Style Book:The Truth About Style Source: The Truth About Style
“It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.” IfsLongHardHoursEmotionalHard WorkDoctorsWorth ItTenseLong Hours Author:George Lucas
“If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.” IfsWayShouldAsksRecordsCryEmotionalSubjectiveCriteriaGood WayProfitability Author:Moby