“Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.” KindDifferentPayEmotionalAmbitionInvestmentEnormousImpulseExpensiveDifferent KindsCoins Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.” PeopleQualityEmotionalInvestmentSurroundLongevityQuality Of LifeEmotional Investment Author:Lee Johnson
“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.” IfsShowsTodayKnownEmotionalTheoryTomorrowFindingsInvestmentYesterdayFantasticStringsString TheoryEmotional Investment Author:Brian Greene
“We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult to give them up....Because they were made at a time of life when we were utterly dependent on them, the love attachments of infancy have inordinate power over us, more than any other emotional investment.” GivingHumansPersonsMadeDifficultEmotionalInvestmentPossessionDependentAttachmentInfancyEmotional Investment Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“I think you approach a part the same way and just find out in what's making them tick and who they are. In a movie like this you may have a little less time and few dialogue scenes and exposition scenes for your character to really get that across, and so I wanted to be able to convey that she's not somebody who's just punching a clock but she has this weird emotional investment in her job to where she does get quite myopic and that's what makes her relentless.” ThinkingWayMayLittlesDoeCharacterAbleWantedJobsEmotionalSceneApproachInvestmentDialogueClockRelentlessTickPunchingMyopicEmotional Investment Author:Kate Beckinsale
“I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.” NeedsReasonEmotionalInvestmentFinancialProductionsIsraelActressesArtisticIsraeliFinancial Investment Author:Mili Avital
“Large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst investments after long periods of winning.” ThinkingLongMadeImportantWinningTermLossWorstEmotionalPeriodsInvestmentProfitInsidious Author:William Eckhardt
“The key to investment success is emotional discipline. Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. To be a successful investor, you have to be able to admit mistakes. I trained a guy to trade who had a 188 IQ. He was on "Jeopardy" once and answered every question correctly. That same person never made a dime in trading during 5 years!” YearsPersonsMadeAbleGuyMistakeSuccessfulEmotionalKeysDisciplineTradeInvestmentMaking MoneyInvestorsTradingDimesJeopardyInvestment Success Author:Victor Sperandeo
“Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.” PeopleKnowsOrderLosesAbilityDecisionEmotionCuttingEmotionalDisciplineExerciseWeightMajorityInvestmentFatsDespiteAnalogiesDietingLose WeightUnsuccessful Author:Victor Sperandeo
“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.” IfsEmotionalInvestmentEmotional Investment Author:Biz Stone
“I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.” FactsDecisionEmotionEmotionalInvestmentInvestingRationalDecision Making Author:Bill Ackman
“Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?” GivingCoursesUnderstandingEmotionEmotionalReturnResearchBiggerImpactInvestmentInvestingFund Author:Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
“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
“There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one is, you're working hard up there. And the ones who say I'm working hard are teachers, they're the educators; they're the people who are the performers. It's a huge investment of my psycho-emotional energy to pull that off and to make it look smooth.” PeopleLooksKindTwoHardEnergyNaturalTeacherEmotionalHugeInvestmentCommentPerformersSmoothEducatorPsychoEmotional Energy Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“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
“I do my best to choose carefully. If I don’t feel that collaboration is going to happen, I say no. Think about it. These projects can involve a five-to-seven-year partnership. If you don’t feel comfortable with someone, you can’t get rid of them. I just walked away from a job for that reason. Every one of these projects is an emotional investment, like falling in love. You’ve got to believe in it and you’ve got to like the people you work with.” PeopleThinkingBelieveReasonFallLove YouEmotionalInvestmentFalling In LoveCollaborationPartnership Author:Frank Gehry