Feelings Quotes - Page 28

• None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling--the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Book, Writing, Opposites

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• Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

  John P. Kotter

  People, Giving, Matter

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.14, Harvard Business Press

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• Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

  John P. Kotter

  Vision, Conviction, Happens

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.114, Harvard Business Review Press

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• 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.

  Lulu

  Attitude, Thinking, Feel Good

  "I'm through with having Botox, says pop diva Lulu". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 31, 2008.

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• Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Nuclear, World, Dozen

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 148), 1991.

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• How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Expression, Giving, Would Be

  Diary entry in 1898. "Painting in the Twentieth Century, an Analysis of the Artists and Their Work". Book by Werner Haftmann, p. 82, 1966.

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• the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.. (it) looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge - essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there.

  Marsden Hartley

  Easter, Islands, Race

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• I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

  John Braine

  Hate, Desire, Want

  John Braine (1980). “Room at the top”

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• In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.

  William Baziotes

  Fall, Mirrors, Order

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• I am really enthusiastic about my new council position because part of my satisfaction in life is feeling like I have done something. With this responsibility I hope I can accomplish things for the City of Williamstown and the people.

  Barbara Lewis

  Responsibility, Satisfaction In Life, Cities

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• The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

  Asher Brown Durand

  Mean, Artist, Understanding

  Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd

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• 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.

  Jim Rowe

  Wise, Artist, Thinking

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• When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Light, Sky, Darkness

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• Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?

  Gerald Brommer

  Artist, Ideas, Personality

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• 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.

  John S. Hall

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.

  Ugo Mochi

  Ideas, White, Black

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• To trust yourself is to trust Silence. To trust your own heart is to trust the wisdom that is radiating and shining. All the thoughts, feelings, desires, and fears are just a superimposition that is called 'myself.' When all that disappears, for at least a moment, your Self shines forth. Radiantly, clear, and empty. Needing nothing, nourished, and overflowing.

  Eli Jaxon-Bear

  Heart, Self, Silence

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• And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.

  Julian Jaynes

  Loss, Self, Order

  "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, (Book I, Chapter 3, p. 79), 1976.

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• One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Prayer, Moving, Ill Will

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• My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.

  Richard Laymon

  Laughter, Pain, Book

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• I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Basketball, Long, Matter

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

  Kobo Abe

  Stars, Loneliness, Thinking

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• I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

  Adam Rapp

  Girl, Dog, Years

  Adam Rapp (2010). “Punkzilla”, p.2, Candlewick Press

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• When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

  Adam Rapp

  Perfection, Long, Inspire

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• Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.

  Susan McClary

  Important, Desire, Doe

  "Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology". Book by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood and Gary C. Thomas, 1994.

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