Emotional Quotes - Page 17

• There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

  Victoria Chang

  Hypocrisy, Desire, Clusters

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• Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

  Will Sheff

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Songwriting

  The Believer Interview, believermagblog.wordpress.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way.

  Dana Spiotta

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Our limbic system sets the mind's emotional tone and stores our highly charged emotional memories.

  Tian Dayton

  Memories, Mind, Tone

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• New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Pathways, Nerves, Research

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• Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Pain, Knowing, Serenity

  Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.5, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Jobs, Trying, Mainstream

  "Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.

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• You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don't fight battles that don't matter.

  Joel Osteen

  Fighting, Battle, Energy

  Twitter post from Jun 24, 2015

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• You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

  Nicole Kidman

  Looks, Actors, Kind

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 02, 2017

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• Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

  Audre Lorde

  Play, Empowering, Erotic

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Dover Publications

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• Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

  Max More

  Mean, Technology, Expression

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• The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

  Teju Cole

  White, Justice, Privilege

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.240, Faber & Faber

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• I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need to have a heater at my feet, and I drink this thing called Cool Brew, which I found in Louisiana. It's like condensed coffee.

  Ester Dean

  Coffee, Feet, Louisiana

  "Pitch Perfect's Ester Dean Tells Us Exactly How She Wrote Rihanna and Nicki Minaj's Latest Hits (and It Involves Vampires!)" by Jen Weinberg, www.glamour.com. October 5, 2012.

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• We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They weren't financial. They weren't curricular. They weren't research. They weren't any of the usual things we've always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.

  David Edward

  Educational, Thinking, Keys

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• When we understand the privilege of what it means to be an athlete, we are in touch with, and rejoice in, our physical, mental, and emotional strengths and our endless possibilities.

  Gloria Averbuch

  Athlete, Mean, Privilege

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• When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.

  Jerome Stern

  Distance, Character, Writing

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• Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

  Edoardo Ponti

  Athlete, Body, Landscape

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• I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there's no chance to share emotion. Most of them are busy, [there are] explosions everywhere. So we got rid of all the background noise and we had to get rid of the guns.

  Jenova Chen

  Mean, Player, Gun

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• Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

  Geraldine Stutz

  Careers, Intellectual, Muscles

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• I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

  Mili Avital

  Israel, Needs, Actresses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

  Joel Dicker

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as “sophisticated,” “desirable,” “innovative,” “friendly,” and “trustworthy.”

  Nirmalya Kumar

  Loyalty, Attachment, Inspire

  "Can You Name a Chinese Brand?" by Nirmalya Kumar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

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• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  Kate Zambreno

  Girl, Writing, Greatness

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kate Zambreno". Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. November 18, 2012.

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• A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.

  R. Carlos Nakai

  Spiritual, Heart, Frustration

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• Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.

  Francesca Marciano

  Littles, Sabotage, Clear

  Francesca Marciano (2010). “Rules Of The Wild”, p.92, Random House

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