Emotional Investment Quotes

• Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

  Warren Buffett

  Emotional, Discipline, Sound

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• Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Buyers, Term

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• We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult to give them up....Because they were made at a time of life when we were utterly dependent on them, the love attachments of infancy have inordinate power over us, more than any other emotional investment.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Emotional, Attachment, Giving

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• If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

  James Dyson

  Writing, Heart, Emotional

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• You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.

  Biz Stone

  Emotional, Investment, Ifs

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• If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will reappear. It's a matter of the subject and emotional investment and my own obsessive thinking about various issues It's an unconscious process. To say that a single story is not done isn't quite true. A story can be finished and judged successful or not by somebody else, but if the issue is not done for me, I can count on its reappearance.

  Antonya Nelson

  Book, Character, Successful

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• Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will make racism disappear. They have a deep emotional investment in the myth of sameness even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

  bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.167, Routledge

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• The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.

  Lee Johnson

  Emotional, People, Quality

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• You have to have that emotional investment in the jokes that you're saying otherwise they actually don't work. You can say exactly the same thing, but if you don't believe it's funny at the time that you're saying it, it won't be.

  John Bishop

  Believe, Emotional, Investment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

  Clifford Stoll

  Communication, Science, Technology

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• If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally, then it's dead to me. When I'm reading other fiction writers, if I don't get any emotional investment from the writer, if it's just intellectual or clever - you know, most writing that passes as deep is just clever - I don't feel any connection.

  Oscar Hijuelos

  Clever, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

  Steve Vai

  Player, Emotional, Guitar

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• I think you approach a part the same way and just find out in what's making them tick and who they are. In a movie like this you may have a little less time and few dialogue scenes and exposition scenes for your character to really get that across, and so I wanted to be able to convey that she's not somebody who's just punching a clock but she has this weird emotional investment in her job to where she does get quite myopic and that's what makes her relentless.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Jobs, Character, Emotional

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

  Brian Greene

  Emotional, Yesterday, Today

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• My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.

  Tom Courtenay

  Drama, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Sports, Emotional, Investment

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