“I do my best to allow myself to really feel it [emotional pain]. Cry. Get all in it. Really experience my experience so that I may move through it. And talk about it. I try not to let anything get brushed over and swept under the rug.” FeelsTryingMayPainMovingCryEmotionalEmotional Pain Author:Dash Mihok
“I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.” KnowsTryingIdeasCharacterSpiritSidesEmotionalNo IdeaFakeCaptureSigningToughnessWoundednessSigning Up Author:Caity Lotz
“I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.” WorldWritingTryingFirstsStillsFeelingsTodayDesireGrowsSpaceEmotionalGrewProtectGrew Up Author:Elena Ferrante
“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
“Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.” WayFeelsTryingLooksImportantIdeasMightFashionEmotional Author:Guido Palau
“You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).” TryingPlayActingConditionsEmotionalOvercomingIntentionActiveDoings Book:The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor Source: The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor
“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
“I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand.” TryingHandsPainEmotionalPerspectiveCome UpHelpfulEmotional Pain Author:Richard Brancatisano
“When I'm in emotional pain, I usually embrace the pain, cry, and let it all out. Then I try to look on the bright side.” TryingLooksPainSidesCryEmotionalEmbraceEmotional PainBright Side Author:Jacqui Holland
“If it's physical pain, you just deal with it the best way you can. But if it's more emotional, I don't know. I just try my best to feel it, take it in, and just allow myself to go through whatever may actually come from it. And then a certain amount of it, you can use to transform it through art, which is the healthy way of dealing with it, as well.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsTryingWellsMayArtUsePainCertainDealsEmotionalAmountHealthyBest WayPhysical PainDealing With It Author:Reggie Watts
“I've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down and work out what the story's about. You're brought into a sort of sequence of images that have that emotional resonance, but it's kind of irrelevant what the actual story is. It's taken me maybe 13 albums or something to work that out.” WayWritingTryingYearsKindStoriesTakenEmotionalDown AndAlbumsWork OutIrrelevantSequenceResonance Author:Nick Cave
“Everybody knows what they were kind of drawn towards or what they're gifted at and it's more of courage and looking at yourself and saying, "I'm going to try something and move back in that direction." So it's less of an intellectual problem and it's more of an emotional problem because as you get into your 30's and 40's you get addicted to a paycheck and a comfort and you delude yourself into thinking this is what my life is and you lack the guts to be honest with yourself and to make that change.” ThinkingKnowsTryingKindProblemMovingLife IsHonestEmotionalComfortIntellectualBeing HonestGutsGiftedPaychecksHonest With YourselfBe Honest With YourselfEmotional Problems Author:Robert Greene
“Fashion is very much emotional. When you see it, or when you wear the right clothing, or you wear whatever, it's supposed to make you feel something. You're supposed to feel some type of emotion, and I feel like I try to do that when I'm on a red carpet.” FeelsTryingEmotionFashionEmotionalTypeRedClothingsCarpetRed Carpet Author:Zendaya
“I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.” GivingTryingPoliticalFightingFoundUnderstandingEmotionalProjectsRootsHistoricalSpreadLegacyOverwhelmingDay To DayViciousScopeVacuumsDiligentManageableTentacles Author:Ava DuVernay
“I think music for me, it's part of my life. I like music. I think I'm very emotional, so, you know, I just try to take all the emotion, you know, that music bring it to me, you know, some make - I mean, help me to calm down some, for sure motivate me more. You know, there's always music. I think just make me smooth before the match, you know.” ThinkingKnowsTryingMeanHelpingEmotionEmotionalCalmHelp MeSmoothCalm Down Author:Gael Monfils
“I guess what I'm trying to say is that whatever weirdness was going to be in there, I felt, had to be earned. And it had to be required by the emotional needs of the book.” NeedsTryingBookFeltEmotionalWeirdnessEmotional Needs Author:George Saunders
“I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.” TryingCryEmotionalUncomfortable Author:Pharrell Williams
“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
“I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level.” TryingRememberReadingEmotionalPure LoveMaking TimeLove Of ReadingReally Sad Author:Elif Batuman
“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
“It was good to see an athlete that emotional in the aftermath of defeat, to show that losing isn't good enough. Fighting hard and trying your best isn't good enough. It showed that the only thing good enough in his eyes was winning. It caused a tremendous amount of emotion from him when he didn't achieve that.” TryingEnoughEyeFightingWinningEmotionAchieveEmotionalLosingDefeatAthleteGood Enough Author:Dan Goossen
“I want it to feel very satisfying, the ending, so you've felt like you were going on a journey and we were trying to lead you somewhere. So going into that, it's made it extremely funny but also a very emotional last season of the 'The Mindy Project' .” TryingJourneyEmotionalLike You Author:Mindy Kaling
“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
“I have received emails from readers who have said that they were emotionally impacted by the books, and they feel they are more environmentally aware and energized to do more. So that's hopeful to me. It is at least evidence of what I'm trying to do - trying to convey very intense emotional experiences by being very close in on character points of view to make you feel it in your body. That's one way to get the point across, by evoking a visceral response.” TryingBookCharacterEmotionalEvidenceResponsePoint Of ViewIntenseHopeful Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“There are a couple of writers I admired who were very good at giving the character's emotion without stating what that emotion was. Not saying "He was feeling tense," instead saying, "His hand squeezed harder on the chair arm," as if staying outside the guy. I wanted to try doing that. I wanted to have a really emotional story in which the characters' emotions are never straight - out told to you, but you get it.” GivingTryingFeelingsGuyEmotionEmotionalCoupleVery Good Author:Donald E. Westlake
“One of the biggest struggles that I've faced and overcome is finding a balance between emotion and facilitating it through logical means. One of the biggest challenges I have is finding that balance. This emotional mess that I am and this logical side of me, I try to find the medium that will balance me out. I think that's my big mission statement in life: to find that balance. It's a negative-positive and how that relates.” ThinkingTryingMeanChallengesEmotionStruggleEmotionalBalanceOvercomingMessLogical Author:Keith Stanfield
“In order to reinvent yourself, you have to dig deep and look at yourself. I'd lost my way creatively, and I was humbled, and so I think I got really basic about wanting to depict people in the ways that I find them amazing and funny and emotional and that I can relate to and do from an instinctive, gut place. People trying to survive ... That's what all my movies are about.” PeopleThinkingTryingEmotionalMy WayGutsDig DeepLook At Yourself Author:David O. Russell
“I'm always trying to encapsulate how we, as emotional beings, interact with the world and the machines and technology around us - being able to emote through those things. They're not antithetical or mutually exclusive.” WorldTryingTechnologyEmotional Author:Sophie
“I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.” WritingTryingCharacterMotivationUnderstandingEmotionalResponseBoringAfghanistan Author:Rory Stewart
“Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away. As a writer, my interest has become in writing about much more emotional, personal topics. I'm trying to reach into subjects I have never written about before.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingLongEnoughPastInterestEmotionalBoringGoing Away Author:John Boyne
“I do think music and the arts are imperative for our kids for their creative learning and their emotional education, which breeds better adults. I'm doing what I can to try and pick up the slack and I applaud anyone who tries to give back to their community.” ThinkingGivingTryingArtKidsCommunityCreativeEmotionalGiving Back Author:Sarah McLachlan
“Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.” TryingPersonsDifferentSpiritualEmotionalLike YouMaturityRecognizingAwakenedEmotional Maturity Author:Jack Kornfield
“I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.” PeopleWayTryingWellsCharacterFacesMy OwnEmotionalConflictStriveDestructiveSurroundBoresMy Own Life Author:Alan Ball
“I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.” TryingRealityCertainActingFiguresEmotionalExerciseEmpathyConfused Author:Edward Norton
“I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.” GivingTryingMotivationalActionMotivationEmotionalHeroVillainMy HeroHeroes And Villains Author:Sidney Sheldon
“You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.” ThinkingKnowsTryingReasonNightLevelsEmotionalInstrumentsChasingTouringGood NightGreat Night Author:Slash
“It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.” TryingImportantJobsEmotionalJudgingResponseObjectivesPersonaEmotional ResponseUnemotional Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.” WritingTryingDifferentSometimesFeelingsEmotionalPaintingCommunicationElementsPagesCinematic Author:Sylvester Stallone
“Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.” TryingImportantSpiritualLevelsHealingIssuesEmotionalInvolvedPsychologicalSicknessSymptoms Author:Marianne Williamson