Emotion Quotes - Page 29

• I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Funny Inspirational

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• To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

  Stephen Fry

  Mean, Opposites, Adults

  Stephen Fry's BAFTA annual television lecture, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

  Kenny G

  Religious, People, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ordinary, Buying, Economy

  "The psychology of impulsive shopping" by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2015.

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• A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

  Mary Garden

  Moving, Anger, Creativity

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• From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

  Richard Gere

  Buddhist, Real, Views

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• Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

  Paul Getty

  Men, Emotional, Economy

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• The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Beautiful, Sweet, Kings

  "Beat of a Different Drummer". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 14, 1999.

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• The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

  Daniel Goleman

  Taken, Anxiety, Mind

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• But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Successful, Emotional

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• I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

  Daniel Goleman

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Feelings, Reactions

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• It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Sleep, Awake At Night

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

  Alex Grey

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.126, North Atlantic Books

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• I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

  Bear Grylls

  Stay Strong, Fearless, Scared

  FaceBook post by Bear Grylls from Jun 30, 2015

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• You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

  Bear Grylls

  Giving, Treats, Feels

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• I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

  Daphne Guinness

  Philosophy, Practice, Two

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• A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.

  Daphne Guinness

  Priorities, Lasts, Affair

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• There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison; and other people just hate him regular.

  Buddy Hackett

  Hate, People, Poison

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

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• It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

  Conrad Hall

  Cinema, Metaphor, Evoke

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• Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.

  Sam Harris

  Loneliness, Thinking, Like Love

  "Drugs and the Meaning of Life" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.

  Marilu Henner

  Vegetables, Energy, Negative

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• I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Passion, Giving

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

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• I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

  Carolina Herrera

  Discipline, Taught, Certain

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