“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.” EndsWholeCharacterFeelingsRealityLostStuffLosesComedyEmotionalEmptyConnectionsViewersStrainBananasEmotional ConnectionFunny Stuff Author:Mike White
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsImportantReasonWould BeSoundLosesLossCuttingEmotionalKeysDisciplineFinancialMaking MoneyTradingFinancial Markets Author:Victor Sperandeo
“You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.” AbleLosesDecisionLevelsEmotionEmotionalParticularMeaningfulProductiveGood DecisionCompetenciesEmotional Control Author:John Wooden
“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.” IfsWayBookSometimesCharacterStoriesSpiritSpeakLosesWorryEmotionalSightSurpriseComicPlotSparksSurprisingComic Book Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.” KindFactsRealityLosesEmotionalDegreesIntenseWildernessGrey Author:Frank Grillo
“As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind.” MindChristianLosesReligiousWonderEmotionalTreatsSightCourtPressesPushingAffliction Author:Robert Bork
“When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.” HeartMovingLosesBeautyEffectsProduceEmotionalUniversalAbsence Book:The City and the Stars Source: The City and the Stars
“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.” IfsWantFeelsGamesLosesEmotionalBalanceNegativeBoundsInvestingSatisfactionFeel GoodThings To DoCriteriaWrong Things Author:William Eckhardt
“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
“Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you're on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don't want to be onstage looking like a robot, I want to be at the end of the day very emotional and what feels like someone being up there rather than reciting things. That's always the challenge, to analyze and then somehow lose yourself in something you absolutely know backwards and forwards. And nothing's going to surprise you, but you have to be surprised by it and let it surprise you.” KnowsWantFeelsWellsEndsLostLeftLosesChallengesBrainStageEmotionalSurpriseThe End Of The DayBackwardsRobotsLosing YourselfRecitingLeft Brain Author:Bo Burnham
“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.” IfsKnowsWellsHeartPersonsRealLastsRememberHateFightingLosesLossLevelsDealsAttitudeIssuesPiecesEmotionalMy HeartEgoI HateMindsetWorking ItRoofCompetitorsHealedPositive MindsetBasketsMy AttitudeBruisesEmotional Person Author:Joe Warren
“Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.” IfsLongCountryCarePoliticalCertainGamesWinningPresidentLosesMinutesPolicyEmotionalWillingCapacityVicesBombsMaryClosingCliffsVice PresidentMccainPalinHailHail Mary Author:Dee Dee Myers
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” IfsHeartReasonLosesEmotionStrengthEmotionalOughtThriveLet It Go Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.” WantArtPhilosophyMightWinningSportsEnjoyLosesResultsFireEmotionalHungryLive ByCompetingCompetitorsInspirational SportsDeep DownWin Or Lose Author:Apolo Ohno
“If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.” IfsWould BeLosesAbilityEmotionalAngryRefuseRobotsOutraged Author:Arundhati Roy