“People who hold on to grudges, insist on being right, and try to change other’s minds have a difficult time maintaining healthy, happy relationships. Surrendered people easily forgive. They are open to new ideas, and aren’t attached to being “right.” As a result, people love working and collaborating with them. Others seek them out as mediators and advisors. They are more laid back and relaxed than their rigid counterparts, which makes them highly valued by others. They are passionate and emotional.” PeopleTryingMindIdeasDifficultResultsEmotionalHealthyForgivingPassionateNew IdeasRelaxedMaintainingDifficult TimesGrudgeCounterpartsAdvisorsLaid BackCollaboratingMediatorsHappy RelationshipHealthy Happy Author:Judith Orloff
“Most people view health only in the physical sense, but I view it also in the mental, spiritual, and emotional sense.” PeopleSpiritualViewsEmotional Author:Malcolm Goodwin
“We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWayCertainFoundLanguageSpecialEmotionalParticularBoundariesOur WorldPhenomenalConnectors Author:Annie Lennox
“I love to see people win. You can literally see a person change through achievement on this emotional and spiritual level.” PeoplePersonsSpiritualWinningLevelsEmotionalAchievement Author:Jennifer Widerstrom
“It's really good to talk about it [ hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts], and it's very gratifying when people ask us about the other aspects of the film [Swiss Army Man], but [those things] are part of the movie and they're important and hilarious, a very fun part of the movie, so there's no sense from us of not wanting to talk about that. I think it's exciting that those things exist in a film that is also very heartfelt and emotional and profound.” PeopleThinkingMenImportantFilmAsksFunEmotionalAspectExcitingArmyProfoundHeartfeltSwissProsthetics Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.” PeopleWayWantKindTwoStuffNaturalResultsEmotionEmotionalSceneStriveAll KindsOne WayNegotiationNegotiating Author:William H. Macy
“People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.” PeopleProblemRealityUnderstandingAnimalMoralPrinciplesGrowingAcceptanceEmotionalCapacityCrueltyAnimal Cruelty Author:Wayne Pacelle
“I think the show has so many wonderful memories connected to it for lots of people. When fans come to see me at the Andy Griffith Museum they get so emotional. Some of them cry, lots of them hug me and some want a kiss on the cheek.” PeopleThinkingWantShowsMemoriesWonderfulFansCryEmotionalKissingConnectedMuseumsCheeksHugHug MeWonderful Memories Author:Betty Lynn
“Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by nature, by robots, or by fungal infections in and around one's nether-country. Stories need conflict across the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual spectra. Accidents, betrayals, cataclysm, desperation, excess - these are the letters in the alphabet of conflict.” PeopleNeedsWritingCountrySometimesCharacterStoriesSpiritualChallengesLinesEmotionalConflictIntellectualLettersBetrayalAccidentsFlatsExcessDesperationRobotsAlphabetInfection Author:Chuck Wendig
“Today, financial capital is no longer the key asset. It is human capital. Success is no longer about economic competence as the main leverage. It is about emotional intelligence. It is no longer about controls. It is about collaboration. It is no longer about hierarchies. It is about leading through networks. It is no longer about aligning people through structures and spreadsheets. It is about aligning them through meaning and purpose. It is no longer about developing followers. It is about developing leaders.” PeopleHumansMotivationalTodayPurposeLeaderEconomicEmotionalKeysStructureFinancialDevelopingAssetsFollowersCollaborationEmotional IntelligenceHierarchyCompetence Author:Darren Hardy
“I'd like them [people] to leave thinking about the challenges women face in the workforce, but more importantly to really feel the emotional highs and lows of those challenges - to have really experienced that unsettling place where ambition crosses over into something else entirely.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFacesChallengesEmotionalAmbitionLowsCrossesWorkforceHighs And Lows Author:Meera Menon
“People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.” PeopleShouldWellsMadeTogetherLonelinessEmotionalConsciousWell BeingContributionReductionEmotional Well Being Author:Daniel Kahneman
“My mom has kind of been more of the emotional support system. One time I was really feeling all out of it, just dealing with a lot of cooks in the kitchen and adjusting to what it means to be in the music industry, and I called her. One of the first things she said to me was 'You have to be thankful that these people even like you, no one liked me, at all, I was not really accepted for a very long time.'” PeopleFirstsKindMeanLongSaidFeelingsSupportEmotionalLike YouMomIndustryLong TimeMy MomAcceptedCooksKitchenOne TimeBeing ThankfulMusic IndustryAdjustingSupport SystemsEmotional SupportCooks In The Kitchen Author:Jillian Hervey
“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
“HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.” PeopleWorldLawBlackHalfWorstEmotionalAnxietyCrisisCanadaImmigrantsManipulationTrendsExploitationHiv Author:Sarah Schulman
“People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in "Fences"] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness.” PeopleMightForgetConsciousnessEmotionalStreamsContributionCommentFenceSexistMonologuesStream Of Consciousness Author:Viola Davis
“I believe an adult must intervene. You really have to. Kids just don't have the emotional maturity to deal with bullying and it can be extremely damaging; it can be life-changing. So I see that as a special thing that people need to be very careful in how they handle bullying.” PeopleNeedsBelieveKidsI BelieveDealsSpecialEmotionalAdultsCarefulHandleMaturityLife ChangingBullyingSpecial ThingsEmotional Maturity Author:Megyn Kelly
“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
“In cyberspace, we get many fewer cues about the emotional states and attitudes of the people we're talking to. That makes it less interesting, easier to mis-communicate, and more likely to destroy trust. So you need to treat cyberspace with care, especially being aware of the fragile nature of trust in the virtual world.” PeopleWorldNeedsStatesCareInterestingAttitudeTalkingEmotionalEasierTreatsCommunicateFragileFewerCyberspaceVirtual World Author:Nick Morgan
“One of the things that really has gone wrong in modern politics, one of the things that made Trump possible was that many people have a view of politics as something dramatic and exciting and thrilling and emotional.” PeopleMadeViewsGoneModernEmotionalTrumpExcitingDramaticThrillingModern Politics Author:David Frum
“People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.” PeopleThinkingLovePhilosophyFeelingsLiteratureLove IsEmotionEmotionalEducationalGood Sense Author:Ken Kesey
“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
“I've never been one of those people who has an extremely high level of crisis. I just don't need all that emotional drama.” PeopleNeedsLevelsEmotionalDramaCrisisHigh Level Author:Demi Moore
“How much of what people say in politics is for the moment, meant for the moment, meant only to satisfy an emotional demand or requirement of the moment, but it is not really sincere? My view of people in politics is that most of what they say is not sincere during campaigns about other Republicans.” PeopleMomentsViewsEmotionalRepublicanDemandCampaignsSincereRequirements Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I do not believe God is responsible for my sins, some people may. But I believe that my own weaknesses are father-filtered and just as much as God touched Jacob's hip and he walked with a limb the rest of his life, that I have certain emotional weaknesses that are there to keep me dependent on God.” PeopleBelieveMayCertainFatherI BelieveMy OwnSinEmotionalWeaknessResponsibleHipsDependentTouchedBelieve In GodLimbsJacob Author:Rick Warren
“I still have people coming up to me, and it was, what, six or seven years ago when that finale aired? And they tell me who they were watching with, what their emotional reaction was, and how they were devastated for weeks about [Rita's death in Dexter].” PeopleYearsStillsWeekEmotionalSixYears AgoSevenReactionsSeven YearsDevastatedFinaleEmotional Reactions Author:Julie Benz
“When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.” PeopleWantFeelsSongEmotionalConnectionsPerformancesGoing To WorkEmotional Connection Author:Boy George
“I don't like the way most people think. It's imprecise. I find that when parents ask me questions, they ask very imprecise questions. They say, "My kid has behavioral problems at school." Well, I have to say, "What kind of problems? Is he hitting? Is he rude? Does he rock in class?" I need to narrow questions to specifics. I am very pragmatic and intellectual, not emotional. I do get great satisfaction when a parent says, "I read your book, and it really helped me."” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsWellsKindDoeBookProblemKidsSchoolAsksParentClassRocksEmotionalIntellectualSatisfactionAsk MeHittingRudePragmaticSpecifics Author:Temple Grandin
“The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Most of cognitive therapy has now adopted a similar idea. On the other hand, the relationship part of psychoanalysis - where you must have a deep, emotional relationship with the client - will, I think, get kicked in the teeth one of these days.” PeopleThinkingIdeasHandsDiesExampleEmotionalTraditionTeethThese DaysTherapyMotiveClientsAdoptedPsychoanalysisCognitiveCognitive TherapyDeep EmotionalEmotional Relationship Author:Albert Ellis
“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
“I try to tell a story when I'm playing. I try to make an emotional connection when I'm playing versus before I played just to play. Now there's a sense of purpose of why I play, of how I play. So people can actually feel what I'm saying to them.” PeopleFeelsTryingPlayStoriesPurposeEmotionalConnectionsVersusEmotional Connection Author:Kerry James Marshall
“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
“Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about real people. In nonfiction, you can only say so much about the people you interact with. After all, they're actual people, their version of their story trumps yours. In a novel, you can build a character, using certain parts or impressions of someone you know, and guessing or inventing others, without having to worry that your guesses or memories or inventions are wrong.” PeopleWritingDifferentRealCharacterMemoriesWorryNovelEmotionalInventionImpressionFictional Character Author:Elif Batuman
“As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are being forced, to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.” PeopleProblemRealityUnderstandingAnimalMoralAcceptanceEmotionalProtectionCrueltyAnimal Cruelty Author:Wayne Pacelle
“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
“All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection to acceptance. I think the most important thing for dance right now is to allow for more empathy and understanding between people of different races and socioeconomic statuses. In our society we need to build bridges.” PeopleThinkingImportantDifferentDesireHateUnderstandingJourneyShareAcceptanceEmotionalEmpathyRejectionLove Hate Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess
“I think we need to reckon in a very serious way with the emotional content of news and the way that people perceive facts and their perception of their situation and to me I think the tabloid is like fundamentally an emotional form of journalism and that kind of emotional valence is what distinguishes it from the broad sheet.” PeopleThinkingKindSituationEmotionalSeriousPerceptionJournalismPerceive Author:Lydia Polgreen
“For us what we're trying to do is find the right balance of creating a space for emotion that leads to a sense of empathy and solidarity rather than a sense of division. In my most grandiose moments I think of HuffPost as a platform that makes solidarity possible, that really thinking about the emotional content of stories is a way to help people who think, or who have been manipulated to think, that they're interests are opposed to one another, that they actually are aligned in a fundamental way and they're actually in the same boat.” PeopleThinkingTryingMomentsHelpingInterestEmotionEmotionalBalanceEmpathyBoatSolidarity Author:Lydia Polgreen
“I think there is nothing that can replace your emotional response. The biggest mistakes I have ever made in my life are when people told me, "You really should produce this. It's a guaranteed hit." I would read the material and I would go, "I don't get it, but okay, I'll produce it." You're giving up that much of your life, your time with family and friends, to something that you're not really committed to - and they did not pan out the way everyone said they would, even though I worked just as hard.” PeopleThinkingGivingMistakeEmotionalGiving UpOkayResponseCommittedFamily And FriendsBiggest Mistake Author:Gale Anne Hurd
“Surrendered people enjoy life, relish their personal development, and value their friends. They may have an exceptionally good career and be wealthy, but they are more concerned with meaning and fulfillment. The drive to acquire money and power is a behavior that drains people of their passion and emotional connection to others.” PeopleValuesPassionEnjoyEmotionalBehaviorConcernedPersonal DevelopmentFulfillmentWealthyEnjoy LifeMoney And Power Author:Judith Orloff
“For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the deception, to the duplicity. It is the structure of an affair - not the sexual or emotional behavior or what people actually are doing.” PeopleLyingEmotionalBehaviorAffairDeceptionSecrecy Author:Esther Perel
“'Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in veríté filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it - at nearly three hours long and with no star power - was an outreach to a different and more important audiences. There were the similarly involved folks who saw it that were part of the struggle, but there was also a new audience that weren't empathetic or sympathetic to the people we were portraying. They would never watch a film about inner city families, but they watched 'Hoop Dreams.'” PeopleLongImportantDifferentDreamFilmHoursPowerfulAudienceStruggleEmotionalSceneFilmmakingSympatheticEmpatheticOutreach Author:Gordon Quinn
“Leftists put in these emotional, illogical, and irrelevant terms, and they make people's hearts melt, "He's so wonderful. He cares about people." And so you get open borders, you get open borders in Europe. And, by the way, it's always a one-way street. Why are refugees incapable of shelter and love and compassion in their own countries? That's a good question.” PeopleHeartCountryCareTermCompassionWonderfulEmotionalIrrelevantRefugeeLove And CompassionIllogical Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think hunger is a natural state of being for most people. I mean, hunger is a desire - and you don't only have physical hunger, you have emotional hunger. A lot of my hungers are, in fact, emotional. I think a lot of fat people's hungers are emotional. There are things we very much want, and it can be so difficult to satisfy those hungers. Yet we try. We try so hard.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanDesireDifficultNaturalEmotionalHunger Author:Roxane Gay
“We know the 65-point policy points, to the extent that they exist, but is Hillary Clinton willing to be vulnerable, is she willing to be funny, is she willing to be both authoritative, but also real? And so less what she says than the emotional tone she sets. It takes a lot of confidence to be a vulnerable speaker on this stage. And sometimes she hasn't always projected the confidence it takes to be in some ways weak. But that's what I think people were looking for, that moment of human connection.” PeopleThinkingRealSometimesMomentsPolicyEmotionalWeakClintonVulnerableSpeakers Author:David Brooks
“What I am most proud of with the book On to the Next Dream is how I turned an intensely emotional experience into art. Anyone can run up to a rooftop, tear off their clothes, and scream about how screwed up the world is. But for the people down below, all they see is a person losing their mind. I wanted to make something that channeled that emotion in a way that elicited an empathetic response from the reader. So that after you read this book, you would want to run up to the rooftop and scream about how screwed up the world is.” PeopleWorldMindArtBookDreamRunningEmotionTearsEmotionalProudLosingResponseScreamEmpathetic Author:Paul Madonna
“I'd seen her name on a call sheet for so many years and been called Jo so many times. If people said Jo in the street, I used to turn round because I was so used to being called Jo for five years on Spooks. You do get so used to being called something. Often, it was someone calling their young son... but sometimes it was people calling after me because they recognised me from the show. So, it was a big deal when it happened and it was quite an emotional end.” PeopleSometimesEmotionalSon Author:Miranda Raison
“In fact, I am so happy to be turning 40 and finally having a reason to take responsibility for my own behavior. It's also worked for me in terms of my physical appearance and emotional make-up and people entrusting me to bring the things a role deserves. I don't know whether that's depth or being a curmudgeon or what.” PeopleReasonTermResponsibilityEmotionalBehaviorDeserveAppearanceTaking ResponsibilityPhysical Appearance Author:Josh Brolin
“When you have people who are embarrassing themselves for a living, who are making themselves look foolish and vulnerable and emotional for a living, your day-to-day reality is going to be a high-wire act. People are going to get in fights. People are going to get upset. People are going to walk off set. People are going to call each other names. It happens on every film that has any emotional people.” PeopleRealityFilmFightingEmotionalFoolishVulnerableUpsetEmbarrassing Author:Paul Schrader
“I feel vulnerable sometimes - when I see an emotional scene, for example - and I remember what it took to get to that place, and I fear sometimes that everybody else can see that. You bare a part of you that makes you uncomfortable. I freely give it, I know, but I feel like people know something about me that I wouldn't otherwise give freely to a stranger.” PeopleGivingSometimesRememberEmotionalSceneStrangerVulnerableUncomfortable Author:Diane Kruger