Emotional Reactions Quotes

• If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been
  cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Long, News

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

  Andy Warhol

  Happiness, Emotional, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

  Doc Childre

  Anger, Mean, Emotional

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• When you have an emotional reaction to what you see, you are judging. That is your signal that you have an issue inside of yourself - with yourself - not with the other person. If you react to evil, look inside yourself for the very thing that so agitates you, and you will find it. If it were not there, you will simply discern, act appropriately, and move on.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Emotional, Issues

  Gary Zukav (2007). “Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Strong, Emotional, Secret

  Marcus Buckingham (2009). “Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

  Geoff Johns

  Believe, Emotional, Might

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• The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Meditation, Easier

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• Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts of your personality that judge, react in fear, and cannot love into acceptance, fearlessness, and love is the journey you were born to make.

  Gary Zukav

  Acceptance, Journey, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Aug 22, 2014

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• The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

  Pema Chodron

  Revenge, Fall, Emotional

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Gratitude, Emotional, Imagination

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• I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Communication, Emotional

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• The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Boys, Emotional

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Emotional, Shadow, Temples

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• Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

  Donna Tartt

  Children, Emotional, Adults

  "A Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of THE LITTLE FRIEND". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. October 22, 2002.

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• I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.

  Tim Conway

  Kids, Emotional, People

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• Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

  Chris Hayes

  Sadness, Successful, Emotional

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• I still have people coming up to me, and it was, what, six or seven years ago when that finale aired? And they tell me who they were watching with, what their emotional reaction was, and how they were devastated for weeks about [Rita's death in Dexter].

  Julie Benz

  Emotional, Years, People

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• As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

  Jim Hodges

  Strong, Emotional, Reactions

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• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Emotional, Political, Mindset

  "7/7: Towards a new 'we'" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. July 07, 2006.

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• The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Attitude, Communication, Mean

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• I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman’s character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn’t. I didn’t care. I had enough problems of my own.

  Graeme Simsion

  Selfish, Character, Emotional

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• I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

  David Brooks

  Graduation, Emotional, Heads Or Tails

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• You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.

  Dick Cheney

  Jobs, Responsibility, Emotional

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• The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

  Abraham Maslow

  Humility, Emotional, Special

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story.

  Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

  Writing, Character, Emotional

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