Emotional Response Quotes

• It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Lying, Emotional, Artist

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• By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.

  Wayne Dyer

  Disappointment, Anger, Mean

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• Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.

  Gary Zukav

  Emotional, People, Use

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 11, 2015

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• We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Emotional, Challenges, World

  Joyce Carol Oates (1981). “Contraries”, New York : Oxford University Press

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• Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.

  William P. Young

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

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• Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Emotional, People, Creative

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

  Kim Jong Il

  Emotional, Plot, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

  Ayn Rand

  Spiritual, Selfish, Character

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.28, Penguin

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• I know I have different priorities when I am close to dreaming and coming out of dreaming. I notice I am connected to people in a different way, and connected to the earth. For me, I have exactly the same emotional responses when I go through into shamanic trance.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Emotional, People

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are born into a system of subordination. We are not born into equality and do not have equality to eroticise. We are not born into power and do not have power to eroticise. We are born into subordination and it is in subordination that we learn our sexual and emotional responses. It would be surprising indeed if any woman reared under male supremacy was able to escape the forces constructing her into a member of an inferior slave class.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sex, Emotional, Class

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• There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.

  Harry Shearer

  Emotional, Guy, Would Be

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• It's really amazing to be a part of something that people have an emotional response to, even though it's a network sitcom. When you get a chance to meet fans or interact with them, you realize that there are a lot of people who the show speaks to, and that they really get something out of it, beyond just laughing. That's really fulfilling.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Emotional, People, Laughing

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.

  Stephen Daldry

  Book, Responsibility, Emotional

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• I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.

  Ellen Dissanayake

  Art, Emotional, Media

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• Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

  Emanuel Ax

  Emotional, Social, Should

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• Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand, give us access to millions of sounds. When I put the two together, the result is unique, and it’s not only pleasing to the ear, but produces emotional responses that neither of the two can achieve on their own.

  Yanni

  Unique, Emotional, Hands

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• True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

  April Greiman

  Creativity, Emotional, Design

  April Greiman (1990). “Hybrid imagery: the fusion of technology and graphic design”, Watson-Guptill Pubns

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• I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

  Allan Stratton

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Spiritual, Photography, Emotional

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• An exceptionally positive emotional response indicates that you're summoning the divine energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in nonresistant manner.

  Wayne Dyer

  Emotional, Energy, Flow

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.139, Hay House, Inc

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• But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Believe, Emotional

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Real, Emotional, Fake

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.14, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.

  Tim Burton

  Emotional, Thinking, Way

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• Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

  Yael Cohen

  Positivity, Emotional, Response

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