“People change and forget to tell each other.” PeopleChangeForgetMarriageRelationshipEmotionalCommunicationRelationAgingMemorableFunny RelationshipRelationships With OthersFamily RelationshipPeople ChangingPeople Don't ChangeProcess Of ChangeLove Emotion Book:Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts Source: Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts
“I'm never hard on people just because they annoy me on the show. I'm not emotional when I'm professional. Do I think there are people on the show who need to go home sooner than they do? Yes. I do. but I'm there to be professional and to be a judge and to give them my advice and my help and I take my job really seriously.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingHardHelpingShowsHomeJobsAdviceEmotionalJudgingAnnoying Author:Kelly Cutrone
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantMeanPersonsCareStuffLevelsTalkingCryEmotionalToughSensitiveBad ThingsNastyNot TalkingBad StuffMean Person Author:Joan Jett
“Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingArtIdeasUseSeemsSpiritualCultureStrongLevelsTalkingEmotionalReaderHorrorIntellectualLowsArt IsDrivingReactionsPornographyComponentsSympatheticEvokeVisceralHighs And LowsHigh ArtVolvo Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].” PeopleThinkingWantWritingSchoolRememberChoicesWaitingHalfEmotionalHigh SchoolSittingMiserableIronicNostalgicClassmatesWant To See You Author:Sarah Dessen
“The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.” PeopleFeelsHumansHeartMeanFeelingsFormCoursesAbilityCompassionKindnessEmotionalEmpathyFellowsRelatedFacultyGoodwillOpen HeartLamaDalai Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.” PeopleWayTermEmotionalHugeBehaviorIntellectualMarkBlindSpotsSophisticatedBlind Spots Author:Noah Baumbach
“Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.” PeopleKnowsMadeStoriesIndividualPowerfulBrainEmotionalArgumentConnectionsScientistRationalStorytellingJournalistDiscoveringPortal Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may become quite depressed.” PeopleMayJobsEmotionalLosingDivorceTraumaPsychologicalHardshipPsychological Trauma Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.” PeopleEmotionalLessonsNewsLearning Lessons Author:Michael Shannon
“The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.” PeopleMenHumansUseMightPainFormChristReligiousAcceptingChristianityEnvironmentImpossibleEmotionalGainsAreasAspectValuableSymbolsUnconsciousWildernessAssociationDeitiesDiscomfortReligious ExperienceHuman Form Author:Donald Glover
“Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.” PeopleLevelsEmotionalTypeWideRangeAstronaut Author:Julie Payette
“Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The characters really have to work. Children, as an audience, are very inspirational for me.” PeopleChildrenCharacterAudienceEmotionalVery Inspirational Author:Jan Brett
“Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more consumer goods. There is no energy source that can provide enough consumer goods to meet our human and emotional needs; there never has been, and that's why it's been such a fruitless pursuit.” PeopleNeedsHumansHas BeensEnoughEnergyEmotionalSourcePursuitEndlessConsumersGoodsExcessConsumptionMaking People HappyEnergy SourcesEmotional NeedsNo Energy Author:Tim DeChristopher
“Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.” PeopleBeautifulRolesEmotionalWarmInviting Author:Moby
“Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find themselves gravitating towards the emotional dilemma that the characters find themselves in. Other people will see that there is some layer of subversions to the storytelling aspect of poking a finger of judgment at certain governments to the idea of foreign invasion, others maybe false pretenses.” PeopleWantTwoIdeasCharacterGovernmentActionCertainEnjoyHoursAudienceEmotionalJudgmentAspectFingersStorytellingHopefullyLayersInvasionDilemmaPretenseSubversion Author:Colin Farrell
“The emotional people...You tap into people's hearts.” PeopleHeartLeadershipEmotional Author:Johnny Hunt
“True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.” PeopleStrongSoundEmotionalWorshipAffectionBonesDoctrineRootedBiblicalDeep LoveSanctificationMarrowTrue WorshipSound DoctrineThrush Author:John Piper
“On issues carrying as much emotional freight as race - and there aren't many - a U.S. senator needs to speak with care and consistency. Otherwise, he could find people speaking at his own retirement tribute.” PeopleNeedsCareSpeakRaceIssuesEmotionalRetirementSenatorsConsistencyTribute Author:Gordon Smith
“People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.” PeoplePainJoySongGirlResultsSadnessYouthEmotionalCaliforniaSunshineHymnsCalifornia Girls Author:Brian Wilson
“The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsDifficultEffortSituationStepsEffectsEmotionalCircumstancesLowsOppositesPressureComplainingFrustrationStatus QuoCompelledOpposingVenting Author:Martha Beck
“I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.” PeopleThinkingFilmDarkEmotionalHeavyHairstylesDeep Dark Author:Hugh Grant
“Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.” PeopleWorldBelieveMovingGivenEmotionalStressPacksDivorcedTollsStressors Author:Andrew Bernstein
“People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down.” PeopleWayYearsDifferentEmotionalHundredIntimacyIndifferenceDifferent WaysCheatingNeglectContemptCheatRefusalLack Of Respect Author:Esther Perel
“In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.” PeopleKnowsMenMeanAgeYoungOrderActorsTermEmotionalDirectorsConversationComfortableAdultsMalesBoundariesIntimateYoung AgeIntimate Conversation Author:Kristen Stewart
“I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.” PeopleThinkingWritingFacesInterestLaughingEmotionalHigherCircumstancesSceneBiggerGravesCourageousStakesGetting OldGetting Older Author:Judd Apatow
“When I started out, the most terrifying thing was when I had to be very, very emotional in front of lots of people. Now I've kind of learned that it is very important to keep talking all day, keep making jokes, and be connected with people, and be present. It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional. I learned that is sort of the way I need to be.” PeopleWayNeedsKindImportantOrderTalkingFrontsEmotionalJokesConnectedKeep Talking Author:Julianne Moore
“Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again.” PeopleThinkingWayMindI CanDifferentStatesDoneHappensCan DoOne ThingEmotionalActressesComplexityDifferent ThingsDifferent PeoplesI Can Do ItCatharsis Author:Scarlett Johansson
“The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.” PeopleGivingRealityEnergyAbilityDealsCreativeEmotionalAnxietyCapacityDirectSatisfactionRelateMaturityTensionConsistentMutualRelativeReceivingSymptomsHostileOutletsCriteriaConstructiveCapacity To LoveHelpfulnessEmotional Maturity Author:William C. Menninger
“Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.” PeopleSoulAmericaPastPoliticalPassionLeftPowerfulCenturyEmotionalFoolCapitalismHatredLogicFunctionMythSocialismHatefulEnviousAnti SemitismScapegoatRecessAmericanismBlameless Author:Michael Gove
“When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.” PeopleWalksEmotionalSadAway From YouSad LoveSad Heart BreakLove And SadEmotional LoveLove Emotion Author:T. D. Jakes
“My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.” PeopleMotherGivenImaginationGrowing UpGrowingEmotionalToughSouthTensionTouchedAgreementCourageousBullshitMy ImaginationCapturedCharismaEccentricityQuotaHistrionic Author:Willie Morris
“People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanIdeasDifferentCertainEmotionalIronyCynicalDifferent Ideas Author:Jeff Koons
“We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for a few hundred years and in different forms before that. There is great passion regardless of the fact that it's expensive and people who invest in it are giving money because they believe in it. They're not getting anything back other than satisfaction and enjoyment of hopefully many people having a human, deep, reflective and meditative experience that at its core is incredibly emotional.” PeopleKnowsGivingYearsBelieveHumansDifferentFactsStoriesFormPassionMovementEmotionalHundredWesternSatisfactionCoreRhythmHopefullyEnjoymentExpensiveOperaGreat PassionGiving Money Author:Jake Heggie
“As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it's the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.” PeopleWantPersonsI CanEndsWholeActorsBitsAudienceOne ThingEmotionalIndustryShapesWeightShouldersSpectrumFacetsWhole Person Author:Scott Porter
“I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingIdeasSometimesCharacterNovelMovementEmotionalDrivenDivisionDescribingEmotional Things Author:Dana Spiotta
“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.” PeopleIfsNeedsMeanIdeasMomentsFeelingsProblemWantedTogetherGamesSocialChanceEmotionPlayerShareEmotionalGunKillingBusyBackgroundsNoiseIf I CouldThat MomentExplosionsMean PeopleSyncKilling Each OtherBackground Noise Author:Jenova Chen
“A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'” PeopleTodayChangeForgetRelationshipEmotionalRelationRelationships With OthersFamily RelationshipPeople ChangingPeople Don't ChangeProcess Of ChangeLove Emotion Author:Ian Somerhalder
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldKindDifferentSelfSufferingLevelsPovertyEmotionalPerceptionAbuseRaisedPerceiveStereotypeEmotional AbuseWombGhettoDifferent LevelsPhysical AbuseSelf PerceptionHamptons Author:Lucinda Williams
“The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time is really the stuff that interests me.” PeopleWayLongMomentsDiesStuffTermInterestViewsDogEmotionalLong TimeConsequenceDivorceTraumaPoint Of ViewStorytellingThat MomentEmotional Life Author:Steven Bochco
“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
“People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.” PeopleProblemCausesEmotionalAbuseDifficultySubstance Author:Leigh Steinberg
“I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives.” PeopleWayTryingIdeasStoriesRolesAudienceEmotionalCinemaPerforming Author:Joe Wright
“Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.” PeopleWayBodyEmotionalMedicinePlantResponsePlant MedicineHerbal Medicine Author:Karen Rose
“The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.” PeopleHumansCharacterCan DoHuman BeingsRoomsAudienceOne ThingJourneyEmotionalSmartOnlineSatisfyingSmart People Author:Frank Spotnitz
“People tell me that I'm always smilin' on the court. I don't think about it. I just get emotional out there.” PeopleThinkingEmotionalCourt Author:Lamar Odom
“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.” PeopleIfsI CanSometimesRunningFacesSongToo MuchCryTearsEmotionalAccessThroat Author:Carrie Underwood
“I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.” PeopleThinkingMightSchoolActorsLevelsCrazyEmotionalIntelligentGradesEmotional IntelligencePsychicsHigh LevelBeing CrazyGood ActorsGrades In School Author:Christine Ebersole
“You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!” PeopleIfsEmotionalWeaknessRuinsDependentEmotional Life Author:Stephen Covey
“I think that it drives from an emotional connection with everybody that pulls you through all of those events, whether it's the events or what would be more the action, or I guess the visual effects side of it. So it always starts with me from - emotionally - 'Why do you care about the people who are going through what they're going through?' Because it takes a hell of a lot to put them through that. So you better care for them when they're doing it.” PeopleThinkingWould BeCareActionSidesHellEffectsEventsEmotionalConnectionsVisualsEmotional ConnectionVisual EffectsDo You Care Author:Len Wiseman