Best Expressing Emotions Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?”

“An employee wanders into work late, something you’ve been meaning to talk to them about, so you say, “Late again, eh?” and leave it at that. Or you visit your son for the weekend, notice the empty beer bottles in the garbage, and say, “I see you’re still drinking up a storm.” These comments are intended to help. You hope your employee or your son will take the message to heart. But while your comments may help you feel a bit better (“At least I’ve said something”), they make the other person defensive and frustrated, which is unlikely to produce the kind of change you had in mind. A good rule to follow is: If you’re going to talk, talk. Really talk.”

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Book:Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

Source: Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

“Late that night we were both still thinking about the events as they unfolded. He suggested a drive back to the water to bring some closure. As we stood in the water I felt so thankful to have been with a friend capable of hearing and expressing emotion.”

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Author:Paula Heller Garland

“Robert would allow me to cry as I desperately needed to. At least he'd understand that this need to keep up a perfect appearance had been slowly killing me. Though I hated to admit it; in some ways, Robert had been right all along. You couldn't live without feeling. Denying yourself was a terrible destructive thing that wore on you.”

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Book:From Out of Feldspar

Source: From Out of Feldspar

“In conclusion, a eulogy for the living is a powerful way to express our love and appreciation for the people in our lives.”

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Book:Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas

Source: Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas

“I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.”

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Author:Mark Rothko

“Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one day they stopped, and stared at a box. They grew fat and awkward in public, stopped expressing emotions and couldn't figure out how to reverse it: they reinvented themselves from Emperors back into prawns, because someone turned the TV on.”

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Author:Craig Stone

“Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow's feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin.”

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Author:Laurette Taylor

“I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.”

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Author:Ellar Coltrane

“Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.”

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Author:Elise Valmorbida

“I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.”

“Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it's the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others.”

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Author:James C. Collins

“Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.”

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Author:Emily Blunt

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women”

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Book:Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement

Source: Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement