Emotional Reaction Quotes

#1. I know why she cried like that. She cried because she wasn't finished grieving the loss of me. When someone has an exaggerated emotional reaction to something in the present, it's usually because they haven't resolved something in their past.

Kate McGahan

#2. I thought your degree was in computronics. It didn't please Judd that there was something he hadn't known about her. An emotional reaction. The sweat rolling down his spine felt like ice this time.

Nalini Singh

#3. 'The Voice Kids' was a tremendous success in Holland. There was a big emotional reaction from the parents of the children taking part.

John De Mol Jr.

#4. Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion. Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and the desire to hurt them?

Truman Capote

#5. 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

#6. Invariably when something upsets you, and you have a strong emotional reaction out of proportion to the moment, your shadow self has just been exposed. So watch for any overreactions or overdenials.

Richard Rohr

#7. I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' 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. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

Geoff Johns

#8. True worship is not merely an emotional reaction to external circumstances; true worship leads us beyond the emotion and experience into a deeper realization of the nature and character of God.

Teri Lynne Underwood

#9. Whenever your foundational beliefs about the goodness and justice of God are examined, and the answers produced are not what you yourself have believed about God, there will be an emotional reaction.

Thomas F. Booher

#10. The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering.

Mike White

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

Jim Hodges

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

Don Bluth

#15. Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction,
something that can not be said.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I stroked a big red A on top of his paper. Looked at it for a moment or two, then added a big red +. Because it was good, and because his pain had evoked an emotional reaction in me, his reader. And isn't that what A+ writing is supposed to do? Evoke a response?

Stephen King

#19. 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

#20. Emotional Distress (n.): A negative emotional reaction - which may include fear, anger, anxiety, and suffering

Whitney Gracia Williams

#21. It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

Jonathan Meiburg

#22. With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World.

John Maynard Keynes

#24. Deep emotional response to music typically arises as a product of the most intense musical perception. It is generally in virtue of the recognition of emotions expressed in music, or of the emotion-laden gestures embodied in musical movement, that an emotional reaction occurs.

Jenefer Robinson

#25. Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.

Spencer Rascoff

#26. The GP, who she called immediately, fingers shaking as she dialled, exclaimed with joy. She didn't thinkdoctors were supposed to do that - register an emotional reaction to an outcome.

Elizabeth Noble

#27. 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

#28. All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

Maren Elwood

#29. 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

#30. Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do.

Robert Scoble

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.

Tori Amos

#34. The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

Pitirim Sorokin

#35. Stress kills when you fuel the initial reaction with negative thoughts, aggressive behavior, belief and trust in the uncomfortable physical and emotional symptoms it causes. Don't fuel it, and watch how fast stress disappears.

Charles F. Glassman

#36. Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.

Connie Zweig

#37. Your body's reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.

Rhonda Britten

#38. If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.
The Content of the Psychoses

C. G. Jung

#39. Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

Chip Conley

#40. People often ask whether Obama passes the 'kishka test:' whether he likes Israel special, not in the same way he likes Taiwan or South Korea? Does he? I think the kishka test was decided when he visited Israel. I think the reaction there was emotional and genuine.

Michael Oren

#41. How you react to the issue, IS the issue.

Habib Sadeghi

#42. How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.

Judith Orloff

#43. The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.

Elliot Ackerman

#44. In the table below we list the most common physical, cognitive, and emotional signs of a stress or trauma reaction. If

Paul Robbins

#45. Whatever its origins, the psychology of sacredness helps bind individuals into moral communities.42 When someone in a moral community desecrates one of the sacred pillars supporting the community, the reaction is sure to be swift, emotional, collective, and punitive. To

Jonathan Haidt

#46. If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it ... that's a real problem.

Tim Harford

#47. I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days lacks the emotional impact to draw a reaction from viewers, or remain in their hearts.

Anne Geddes

#48. The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

G. Stanley Hall

#49. I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.

Thomas Kinkade