“When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.” PeopleIfsUsedStuffSituationEmotionalHumourSeriousJokesToolsCracksDeep Emotional Author:Matthew Perry
“Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.” PeopleMindStoriesTogetherFallPiecesPossibilityEmotionalPaintingSeriousPeriodsDramaTragedyScaryCoreToneSatireFalling ApartEmbarrassmentLinearTaiwan Author:Ang Lee
“It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.” ChildrenFeelingsStrongGrowthEmotionalSeriousWallConsequenceStrongerPrisonPrisonerRepressedEmotional GrowthPrison Walls Book:The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition
“In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly.” IfsFeelsWellsCountryPovertyEmotionalSeriousDrugSafeComfortableBoxesUnhappyChecksErasFedsAddictDrug AddictVenuesStimulation Author:David Foster Wallace
“I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.” PeopleDangerousEmotionalSeriousRegardDreadPlagueDogmatic Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .” IfsWellsMeanHelpingChristianSufferingNaturalExistenceChristianityFailingEmotionalSeriousDemandOrdinaryCrossesShameEverydayForgottenTrialsUpliftingRejectionDiscipleshipCalamityTribulationTrials And Tribulations Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.” IfsWayWantProblemActorsFeltEmotionalSeriousPerceptionDumbJudgedEmotional Problems Author:Lisa Kudrow
“I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.” ThinkingPlayUseBigsEmotionalSeriousJokesPracticalsReputationInterviewsBeing RealPractical Joke Author:Darren Hayes
“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
“I think that we as humans have this intuition that we should be afraid, in order to protect us from things, or be afraid in order to prepare us against things. In most emotional situations you cannot prepare, so it is really just a waste of energy. I just realised all of this - that being scared and putting my body into a serious stress situation - was actually hurting me more and wasn't making me feel healthier and was actually making me sicker when I was dealing with my disease.” ThinkingEnergyHurtSituationEmotionalSeriousProtectStressScaredIntuitionBeing Scared Author:Ane Brun
“When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.” IdeasPlayLeftEmotionalSeriousAppealsOpponentsResortsEmotional Appeal Author:Paul Ryan