All Quotes

Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.
‐‐ CeeLo Green

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
‐‐ Max Eastman

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

Emotional grandeur, rendered in the vernacular, has been Mona Simpson's forte. In her novels, 'Anywhere but Here,' 'The Lost Father' and 'A Regular Guy,' Simpson wrote wide and long and high about the most profound human bonds: parents and children lost each other, found each other, lost each other again, but differently.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.
‐‐ Micky Ward

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.
‐‐ Sharad Pawar

Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
‐‐ E. F. Benson

Emotionally, I'm about 13.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.
‐‐ Fred Durst

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.
‐‐ Dan Harmon

Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.
‐‐ Jan Hammer

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
‐‐ Bill Viola

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
‐‐ Francis Spufford

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
‐‐ Ted Koppel

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.
‐‐ Kathleen Troia McFarland

Emotions often must be portrayed from an inner feeling, of course, but I had a double advantage because I was learning to direct my as-yet expressionless feelings as well as gaining an ability to express emotion by a very conscious manipulation of my muscles.
‐‐ Jane Greer

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
‐‐ Ang Lee

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.
‐‐ Sterling K. Brown

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
‐‐ Gary Bauer

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
‐‐ Daniel H. Pink

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
‐‐ George McGovern

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.
‐‐ Mike Krieger

Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.
‐‐ Antonya Nelson

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.
‐‐ Matthieu Ricard

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
‐‐ Karl Rove

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd