“One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.” FeelsKindJesusLinesSituationComedyExampleJudgingTasteCrossesMy FavoriteWorking ItFormulasUnlikelyBin LadenInappropriateGood TasteOsama Bin LadenHandicapsRetardedGood JudgesGynecologists Author:Bonnie McFarlane
“I feel like one of the things I'm trying most to do is stretch my empathetic reach, as far as it will go. I got as far as Gilles de Rais' assistant, for example, and not really as far as de Rais himself.” FeelsTryingExampleAssistantsEmpathetic Author:Jim Shepard
“Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three hundred kids at every assembly. And it feels really good. It's really fun.” PeopleFeelsBelieveI CanShowsKidsFacesThreeFunPerfectLaughingExampleBabyHundredRidiculousSuitsPianoShirtsToysPresentationAssemblySailorMacsPranksBaby Pictures Author:Jory John
“Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.” IfsFeelsHumanityReadingKindnessImagineExampleMessagesGood ThingsStrangerGenerosityReach OutTenderness Author:Sophie Blackall
“If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the theatre and, for example, makes the dinner he's eating later on, extra nice then I feel that I have succeeded. We have this urge to anaesthetize the moment we're living in.” IfsFeelsPersonsEnoughMomentsFilmPoliticalNiceExampleEatingDinnerTheatreExtrasThemeUrges Author:Elia Suleiman
“I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsFactsSchoolJobsViewsEconomyGoneTroubleExamplePeriodsShapesLuckyFindingsGirlfriendMultipleMy GirlfriendMultiple Jobs Author:Chris Baio
“I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsHumansKindMeanStillsPainTermHuman BeingsLevelsExampleObjectsEmotionalPersonalityWorshipUltimateDollarsSorrySecularPortraitsSoupHammersIconsTurmoilEmotional PainGreat SuccessJackieMaoWarholLizSorry For Him Author:Bob Colacello
“I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to buy it, but it's a National Treasure, so I couldn't. If you cannot buy it, just photograph it!” IfsFeelsI CanAgeWantedUniverseEnergyPolicyExampleToolsStonesPhotographStudiosTreasureBunchCollectionsFragmentsPotteryDebrisStone AgeNational Treasure Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went home and my boyfriend plunked out the notes for me, and I had to learn and prepare that song just so I could learn and know how that feels. I've never had that kind of detail in a rehearsal process. Jason Moore is absolutely unbelievable.” KnowsFeelsKindPlayHomeBigsSchoolSongProcessNumbersKnow HowExampleNotesDetailsUnbelievableRehearsalJasonMy BoyfriendMattressesSchool Plays Author:Sarah Steele
“I think a "song" is, like, just play it on the guitar and sing it. You look out and see thousands of covers of "Animal" for example, so you think, "That was probably a pretty good song, because people feel like it's satisfying to just play it with one instrument accompanying it."” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksPlaySongAnimalExampleInstrumentsGuitarSatisfying Author:Andrew Wyatt
“I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be a gadfly, but I do think that real ideas are troublesome. There should be something about my work that leaves the reader unsettled. I intend that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldTryingIdeasRealExampleReaderConvenientTroublesomeGadflies Author:Richard Rodriguez
“You should have a certain way of dressing based on how you feel. It's appropriate for you. I think Robert Rabensteiner's a perfect example of that - he just always looks so chic.” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldLooksCertainPerfectExampleShould HaveAppropriateDressingsHow You FeelChic Author:Tommy Ton
“[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.” KnowsFeelsIdeasSometimesMatterFactsScienceSimpleExampleWeaknessUniversalExtraordinarySignificantAliensStatisticsBiographiesCollecting Book:The life and work of Sigmund Freud Source: The life and work of Sigmund Freud
“I wanted to deliver the emotions a man feels when he's in love. For example, through song "GG BE," I wanted to the express the feelings of being deceived by a woman (the song also contains the woman's counterargument).” MenFeelsFeelingsWantedSongEmotionExampleDeceivedBeing DeceivedCounterarguments Author:Seungri
“People who feel the need to push and control tend to keep their feelings bottled up. As a result, they get shut down or remote, and their feelings come out in twisted, unhealthy ways. They become irritable, passive-aggressive, or volatile, for example.” PeopleWayNeedsFeelsFeelingsResultsExampleAggressivePassiveTwistedUnhealthyPassive Aggressive Author:Judith Orloff
“It is because of that balanced relationship to the moment that mindfulness serves as the platform for insight... if we feel an emotion, for example, and struggle against it right away, there is not going to be a lot of learning going on. In the same way, if we are swamped by that emotion, overcome by it, there won't be enough space for there to be learning or insight.” IfsWayFeelsEnoughMomentsSpaceEmotionStruggleExampleMindfulnessOvercomingInsightBalancedPlatformsBalanced Relationship Author:Sharon Salzberg
“The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsWholeMomentsLawGroupsExampleCitizensMembersThreatDecentAbidingLegitimacy Author:Tony Blair
“I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.” WayFeelsBigsUniverseProcessAnswersExampleAspectScientistThinkerCompellingExpansionBangsAspects Of Life Author:Bill Nye
“When people communicate freely, when labour force, goods, services and funds move freely as well, when there are no state dividing lines and when we have common legal regulation, for example, in the social sphere - all that is good enough, people should feel free.” PeopleFeelsShouldWellsStatesEnoughMovingForceSocialLinesCommonExampleCommunicateLabourFundGoodsGood EnoughSpheresRegulationDividing Author:Vladimir Putin