“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
“Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)” WorldWayLooksKindMeanSelfMomentsSeemsFilmDoubtSawsEmotionalPerspectiveProudFilledPhotographNarrativeThat MomentShiftingSelf-doubt Author:Anton Yelchin
“The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.” WorldWayHumansWarSpiritualFormSufferingCausesWaterAnimalPovertyAirEmotionalDiseaseRootsTreatsCleanStarvationHuman SufferingRoot CauseClean AirAir And Water Author:Sharon Gannon
“This Administration [of Barack Obama] favors a pluralistic world and respects cultural differences, so it's wrong for the West and American elitists to judge how women are treated under Sharia. I'm going too long on all this, but I choke up on the President's legacy of reaching out to the Muslim world. It's an emotional thing.” WorldLongPresidentDifferencesEmotionalJudgingWestFavorsTreatedAdministrationBarackLegacyReachingReach OutChokeElitistCultural DifferencesMuslim WorldShariaEmotional Things Author:Joe Biden
“To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, "Who Came First" is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what that emotional timbre what is my favorite, my favorite "why" is the question. The other songs also have a revealing quality, but it started with "Sister OK".” IfsWorldFirstsKindSongQualityEmotionalAskingMy FavoriteRevealingSymphonyKevinTimbre Author:Andy Kim
“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
“Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.” WorldHumansLittlesTodayFormCertainValuesAttentionEmotionalIntellectualReactionsAssociationOutputThriftEmotional Reactions Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.” WorldEmotionalArtistic Author:Regina Spektor
“The early 2000s for me were a very emotional time, politically. I'd been through Reagan and been through first Bush and Clinton, and it's not like I had an easy time through those years. But I just thought it was particularly rough. I have to say the World Trade Center attack was very weird for me. The events that followed were worse. It was a really long swath of time.” WorldYearsFirstsLongEasyEventsEmotionalTradeClintonRoughReally LongWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Ted Leo
“In a world where authenticity increasingly is in focus, consumers are seeking more than brands who focuses on revenue - consumers want to support brands with a purpose - one that justifies an emotional engagement.” WorldWantPurposeSupportFocusEmotionalSeekingAuthenticityBrandsConsumersJustifyEngagementRevenue Author:Martin Lindstrom
“A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.” WorldHelpingEmotionalProjectsBrandsConstructs Author:Martin Lindstrom
“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
“Where is the video of Kanye [West] telling me he was going to call me 'that b***h' in his song? It doesn't exist because it never happened. You don't get to control someone's emotional response to being called 'that b***h' in front of the entire world.” WorldSongHappenedFrontsEmotionalWestResponseVideoCall MeEmotional ResponseControl Someone Author:Taylor Swift
“My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.” WorldStatesEmotionalObservingPersonaObserving The World Author:John Mulaney
“My hope would be that, as we're moving through the world right now, we're able to get that psychological or emotional peace by seeing very concretely our kids doing better and being more hopeful and having greater opportunities.” WorldWould BeKidsAbleMovingOpportunityGreaterSeeingEmotionalRight NowPsychologicalHopeful Author:Barack Obama
“What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to speculate about that question. Sun Tzu's ideas, as expressed in his famous treatise, have undoubtedly influenced the nature of many revolutionary movements that are arrayed against more powerful forces, and in some cases - as in Vietnam - have played a useful role in bringing about success. But such ideas are always in conflict with other deepseated emotional factors, which propel dissident movements into the rampant use of terrorism and other forms of anarchistic struggle.” WorldIdeasUseTodayFormForcePowerfulRolesCasesStruggleSunInfluenceMovementEmotionalConflictTerrorismFactorsRevolutionaryVietnamQualifiedWorld TodayNature Of ManDissidentsAbout Success Author:William J. Duiker
“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
“If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.” IfsWorldSelfStoriesCertainAcceptanceEmotionalAmountConnectionsSelf AcceptanceEmotional Connection Author:George Saunders
“Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like my judgmentalism; I didn't like my absolutism. I didn't like my repression of natural empathy, my pinched lack of emotional generosity. How I had been thinking politically had less to do with what was wrong with the world and more to do with what was wrong with me, with my fears and insecurities, failings, weaknesses.” ThinkingWorldFactsHouseNaturalMy OwnFailingEmotionalEmpathyWeaknessGenerosityInsecurityRepressionAbsolutism Author:Steve Erickson
“Imbalance of reason and emotion may explain the tenacity of religion in societies: world religions are optimized to tap into the emotional networks, and great arguments of reason amount to little against such magnetic pull.” WorldMayLittlesReasonEmotionEmotionalAmountArgumentTenacityMagneticImbalanceWorld ReligionsReligion In SocietyReason And Emotion Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“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 know most people don't like to be around teenagers but I do. I'm one of the only people I can think of who can't wait for my kid to be a teenager. I think being a teenager is one of the most wonderful things in the world. I really enjoyed it - just this heightened emotional state where everything is beautiful and everything is new and you're convinced that you're really going to break the mould and be different from your parents. And the best part is that you have so much more time that you didn't have as a child.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenDifferentKidsBeautifulWaitingParentBreakWonderfulEmotionalTeenagerBeing A Teenager Author:Diablo Cody
“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
“With a live music performance, the ideas of the richness and complexity of our inner and outer worlds - the emotional world and the external world, like the planets, the weather, and the universe are really washing over you. Your body feels the intention more than your mind analyzing intellectually too much. I've always tried to do this in my music, to make it very direct and bodily, so that it communicates itself immediately, even to someone without prior knowledge of it.” WorldMindUniverseEmotionalDirectIntentionCommunicateComplexityOver You Author:Sophie
“Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money. There are also so many emotional aspects to money - feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.” WorldRealCharacterFeelingsMovingSecurityEmotionalTrainAbsenceNot SureReal WorldUnrealTaxiInadequacy Author:Akhil Sharma
“I think entire social groups are formed through technologies that could never exist in the real world, and relationships that are a function of these technologies' ability to accelerate feeling and emotional contact.” ThinkingWorldRealFeelingsAbilityTechnologyEmotionalReal World Author:Atom Egoyan
“The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds - the larger black world bordered us on one side. More distantly, there was the larger white world. We interacted with some, but not others. If you think of it as an internal geography, it is a land, a contested space with these very charged historical, cultural, and emotional borders.” ThinkingWorldBlackQualityEmotionalHistoricalGeography Author:Margo Jefferson
“External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes the realities of a character's interior language. Poetry can encompass the same realities, but in compressed, intensified language, which creates entirely different degrees of emotional force.” WorldDifferentWarRealityLanguageEmotionalRelationProse Author:Lawrence Joseph
“Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation of the art of being able to enter a state of awareness that is deeply blissful, and beyond thought and feeling as such. Many people have become disillusioned with religions and, as such, have turned away from pursuing anything spiritual. That create a loss of sense of purpose and a lot of anger. Sure, there are all sorts of problems with organised religions, but there are also all sorts of problems with the world of 'science' too.” PeopleWorldArtFeelingsProblemSpiritualPurposeCultureLossAwarenessEmotionalAncientPsychologicalGreekDisillusioned Author:Patrick Holford
“Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.” WorldWayMaySelfShowsGrowsBornGrowing UpEmotionalMembersRestraintRoyalIndulgenceEntitlementRoyal FamilySelf Restraint Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.” PeopleWorldInspirationTearsEmotionalTradeCheeksStreamingWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Leonard Nimoy
“We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.” WorldChallengesEmotionalResponseEmotional Response Book:Contraries Source: Contraries
“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” IfsWorldFeelsWholeLife IsRelationshipEmotionalWhole WorldBest ThingsContentmentSweatSoulmateLove RelationshipWedding AnniversaryStop Loving You Author:Keith Sweat
“The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?” PeopleWorldShouldSoulProblemSpiritualSpiritIndividualAcceptingVirtueImagineHumilityEmotionalWillingNeededFilledForgivingMaturityWillingnessPossessedApologyApologizingAspireEither OrSpirit And SoulEmotional Maturity Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldBelieveOpportunityIndividualI BelieveGoalLinesLevelsEmotionalEqualAchievementMachinesErrorsEngineersAspireEqual Opportunity Author:R. A. Salvatore