“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.” WritingFirstsBelieveWellsIdeasHardGamesLostBornPerfectAcceptingEmotionalPercentEssenceOddsEquityRewritingWriting Well Author:William Zinsser
“The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.” Has BeensMadeStillsPerfectEmotionalModelsWeaknessLimitationImperfectBiblicalWoundedEvidentVessel Author:Christine Caine
“High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)” WellsMayArtFormPerfectClassEmotionalMastersPainterCraftsMeritAestheticAcademicContrastCompositionProvocativeAccusationKitschBest ArtHigh Class Book:Entertaining Ideas: Popular Philosophical Essays, 1970-1990 Source: Entertaining Ideas: Popular Philosophical Essays, 1970-1990
“Sometimes when I'm writing I'll play Cole Porter, just because the rhythms and the lyrics are so perfect that it's like having a smart partner in the room. I have a huge collection of music that I listen to when I'm writing, and I also prepare a lot of music before I start directing. I put it all onto an iPod that I have with me on the set. It's helpful to the actors, because for an emotional scene, I'll play it and say, this is how it feels, to keep us in the zone.” FeelsWritingSometimesPlayActorsPerfectRoomsEmotionalHugeSceneMusic IsSmartPartnersRhythmCollectionsZoneHelpfulIpods Author:Nancy Meyers
“The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we realize that a perfect equilibrium in our lives might not be the best basis for making art, then we can begin to re-vision our stress points. So rather than try to rid your life of tension, consider doing something more creative with it.” TryingArtMightOpportunityEnergyProcessRealizingPerfectVisionCreativeOur LivesEmotionalArt IsBasesStressTransformationTensionBeing The BestDiscontentEquilibriumEmotional Energy Book:Trust the Process Source: Trust the Process
“I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.” TryingStillsSongPerfectExampleEmotionalGrunt Author:Ian Christe
“As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of good.” PainSufferingEvilParentPerfectEmotionalCreaturesRebelEmotional PainPerfect Parents Author:Roger E. Olson
“God cannot suffer - at least not as we do. It has some roots in Greek philosophy: if God is a perfect being, suffering would reduce that perfection, so God cannot suffer. More thoughtful theologians take the phrase in the sense of one of the confessions of faith that talks of God as being "without parts or passions" - he is not physical as we are, and not subject to "passions" in the sense of uncontrollable emotions that can take charge of us at times. God is not "emotional," if that word is used as some kind of weakness.” KindPhilosophySufferingPassionPerfectEmotionEmotionalWeaknessPerfectionGreekThoughtfulConfessionTheologian Author:Christopher J. H. Wright
“Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.” LanguageEasyDifficultPerfectWrittenEmotionalIntelligentMisconception Author:Jessica Lange
“A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.” PeopleAgeCertainPerfectFeetEmotionalAssumingExcuseBlockTiedNo ExcusesBaggageCementUnattractivePerfect LifeEmotional Baggage Author:Olivia Wilde