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“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

Thinking Needs Writing Trying Long I Can Stories Feelings Hands Seems Turns Wish Stuff Perfect Periods Paper Sentences Fantastic Each Day Neurotic Daydreaming Paragraph

Author:William Styron

“The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.”

Source: Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast

“There's a connection that's hard to explain. It's the feeling I get when I see someone shuffle up to meet me, or say something, and I can instantly tell by the cant of their head or by the movement of their arms -- and these are people who aren't even full-blown symptomatic -- that they're one of us. And the look they give me, it's not just gratitude -- I don't care about the gratitude -- but solidarity. And shared optimism. And a resiliency that just makes me think we're doing the right thing, and that this truly is a community.”

“Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.”

Thinking Wells I Can Soul Feelings Loneliness Holy Rounds Your Soul Our Family

Book:Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)

Source: Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)

“In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.”

Thinking Trying Moments Feelings Purpose Sleep Useless Lazy Apathy

Author:Dawna Markova

“My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.”

Thinking Knows Wells Littles Feelings Individual Dangerous Evolution Solutions Consequence Species Implications Darwinism

Author:Ben Stein

“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.”

Thinking Life Self Moments Feelings Life Is Lost Memories Written True Life Feeling Lost

Book:Point Omega

Source: Point Omega

“The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.”

Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Different Feelings Action Order Black White Knowing Events Mass First Time Population Defense Different Ways Transformed Stubborn Segregation Risen

Author:Howard Zinn

“Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.”

Thinking Feels Years Feelings Process Brain Millions Magic Evolution Flow Response Species Currents Aids Psychological Chemicals Electrical Procreation

Author:Alan Lightman

“I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.”

Ifs Thinking Children Moments Feelings Today Asks Leader Wife Harder Our Children Our Family Your Children Sensitive Exposed Rude Private Life

Author:Stephen Ambrose

“Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Actors Levels Acting Judging Communication Concerned

Author:Meryl Streep

“I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.”

Thinking Has Beens Feelings Seeing Following Ghost Vague

Author:Conor Oberst

“I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Grows Fantasy Growing Up Grew Safe Grew Up Neighbor Valleys

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own characterthe author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.”

Thinking Wells Looks Littles Character Feelings Reader Noses Constructs Explaining Chins

Author:Jose Saramago

“I wouldn't say our relationship is always smooth sailing. In a fun sort of way, this publicizing of some feud has brought us closer together. I think it had to do with shooting an episode last season at a school. The students swarmed around him, and I'm walking along and feeling like yesterday's lunch. I was saying that was hard to deal with sometimes and he said, "Stephanie, you can go for it! All you have to do is play sexy." It was a nice chat, but the tabloids took it and made it out that I was jealous. I'm not jealous.”

“To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Feelings Attitude Feel Good About Yourself Old You

Author:Lulu

“It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.”

Thinking Knows Writing Trying Book Hard Feelings Fighting Process Enjoy Challenges Brain Written Hard Work Solve Honestly Limitation

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.”

Thinking Feelings Artist My Own Knowing Wise Style Ugly Not Knowing Ducklings Ugly Duckling

Author:Jim Rowe

“When I'm feeling proud of myself, I should remember to ask myself why I think I am of any value at all. I have done nothing that a hundred thousand other people couldn't do, and most of them would probably do it better, and they probably wouldn't feel so self-important about it. I should always be ashamed of myself.”

People Thinking Feels Should Important Self Done Feelings Remember Values Asks Proud Thousand Hundred Ashamed Proud Of Myself

Author:John S. Hall

“Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.”

People Thinking Way Feelings Love Is

Book:The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

Source: The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

“Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.”

Thinking Feelings Stars Silence Loneliness Color Green

Author:Kobo Abe

“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.”

“I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.”

“Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.”

Thinking Way Feels Littles Persons Feelings Jobs Bits Quality Fans Little Bit Ethics Wave Keep Going

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!”

Thinking World Book Philosophy Feelings Pleasure Practice Loneliness Taught Return Demand Lonely Simplicity Worthy Poetry Is Sentiments Spun Wordsworth Shunning

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Thinking Way Stills Two Different Feelings Today Faces Form Spirit Common Special Species Islam Jew Way Of Thinking Face To Face

Author:A. C. Cuza

“I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Different Done Feelings Action Night Failure Thousand Ten Musician Singers Reasonable Great Men Different Things Considering Reflexes Feeling Sad Clapping

Author:Ronnie Drew

“Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, “forget it,” or “it will pass,” or “it could be worse” - all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, “It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process.”

Thinking May Feelings Faces Process Forget Ready Source Integrity Sorrow Depth Painful Deny Contrary Guidance Transformed Forget It Painful Experiences

Author:Peter Koestenbaum

“If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at myself because I left a pitch in the middle. It's big when you leave a pitch in the middle. When I make that mistake, it's frustrating for me. I have to think about what I did wrong and go to the next step.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Feelings Bigs Happens Next Left Hurt Mistake Steps Middle Mad Frustrating Next Steps

Author:Carlos Zambrano

“I'm into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It's all about thinking lovely things that you would like in life, and feeling good about them before they manifest, so that by the time they do, you don't want them because you're on to your next desire.”

Thinking Want Feelings Law Desire Next Attraction Physics Lovely Feel Good Law Of Attraction Manifest Cosmic Quantum Quantum Physics Lovely Things

Author:Julia Sawalha

“I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.”

Thinking Feels Feelings Constant Aspiration My Thoughts Rama Don't Trust Newness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.”

“I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.”

Thinking I Can Enough Feelings Sports Balls Incredibles Honestly Shocked Had Enough

Author:Mark McGwire

“I would actually love to fly. I think that that would be probably the most exhilarating feeling, and as close as you can get to true freedom.”

Thinking Feelings Would Be Exhilarating True Freedom Exhilarating Feeling

Author:Ali Larter

“I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.”

People Thinking Way Different Feelings Felt Different Times Mannerisms

Author:Radha Mitchell

“Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.”

Thinking Feelings Science Life Is Buddhism Benefits Highest Reflection Intelligent Cooperatives Intelligent Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.”

Thinking Has Beens Soul Feelings Strong Atheism Bed Positive Atheism Giants Dogma Wretched Liberated

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.”

“I think people everywhere have a very dismaying feeling that politics are going over their heads, are being decided by wealthy interests that don't take them into consideration. And are bending the legislative process in their own behalf.”

People Thinking Feelings Process Interest Decided Consideration Wealthy Behalf Bending Legislative Process

Author:Alexander Stille

“We [My Chemical Romance] didn't push ourselves to that next level. I think we purposefully held ourselves back, feeling like maybe in order to advance, we need to regress. There was definitely a sense of fear within the band about taking that next step.”

Thinking Needs Feelings Romance Order Next Levels Steps Band Chemicals Next Steps Next Level

Author:Gerard Way

“Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your cousins. I think everybody kind of has that same feeling. When you go through an accident together, when you go through a traumatic event, sometimes that brings you closer together.”

Thinking Feels Kind Sometimes Feelings Together Blood Events Accidents Cousin Your Best Friend Like Family Your Cousin Traumatic Events

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“The best thing that I can offer to people is just to be honest, and that's a rare quality. In doing so, I think there's always a top down feeling that permeates a working environment. If the boss is cool and he's a certain way that's not bullshitting, then everyone around is going to feel that comfort and try to be that way, as well. That's just who I strive to be, as a person.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Trying Wells Persons I Can Feelings Certain Quality Environment Honest Comfort Offers Strive Being Honest Best Things Boss Top Down

Author:Joe Hahn

“The fun of being a supervisor is that you kind of get to shape the film as a whole rather than crafting a complete scene. I can't really think of one in particular that I feel like I own, except for a couple shots that I animated, which is fun. But feeling like you contributed to the whole is the most satisfying thing.”

Thinking Feels Kind I Can Whole Feelings Film Fun Particular Like You Couple Scene Shapes Shots Satisfying Animated Supervisors

Author:Victor Navone

“I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.”

Thinking Knows Feels Feelings Imagination Know How Imagine Exercise Attributes How You Feel

Author:Larry Gelbart

“If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Moments Use Feelings Body Pain Actors Emotion Gone Involved Anxiety Tools Access Your Body Severe

Author:Joel Kinnaman

“It [the scene] can be something given to you and you go, "Ah this is a good idea, I can work with this." Sometimes it cuts right across your instinct and that's when I might resist. Even if the director might be insistent, I think it's very important to say, "Look, I'm not feeling this. I'll try to make it work but I got to let you know."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Looks I Can Important Ideas Sometimes Feelings Might Given Cutting Scene Directors Instinct Good Ideas

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted to that person. Your life is consumed by them, and everything you want to do revolves around them. I think it's great.”

Thinking Want Firsts Persons Feelings Life Is Fall First Time Falling In Love Obsessed Naive Consumed

Author:Alex Pettyfer

“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.”

“I come up with new ambitions all the time - and the coolest thing is, I think of something I want to do, and I don't really imagine it as "Oh, I've never done that." I think of it as, "Oh, I haven't done that yet." I literally believe I'm going to do everything I set out to do, which is a pretty amazing feeling.”

Thinking Want Believe Done Feelings Imagine Havens Ambition Come Up

Author:Tyler Oakley

“I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster on a grand scale. It was really interesting to see on that day and in the weeks afterwards how people came together, and what people were able to do for each other, and what I found myself feeling and thinking and doing for the people around me, whether it was strangers on the street or my own family. It was really an experience that you can't fake.”

People Thinking Feelings Able Together Found My Own Interesting Week Streets Stranger Disaster Scales Fake Related Really Interesting Manhattan

Author:Alexandra Daddario

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