Emotionally Quotes

#1. Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.'

Kate Atkinson

#2. Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

Bill O'Reilly

#3. I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

Peter Mullan

#4. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us. Psychologists call these people "senders.

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. When I was given the opportunity to direct 'Senna,' I decided the film had to work for audiences who disliked sport or had never seen a Formula One race in their lives. It had to thrill and emotionally engage people who had never heard of Ayrton Senna.

Asif Kapadia

#6. Never do anything irrevocable with a man that you don't want as your husband. You must be sure that you can live yourself, and with him. It may seems like only a moment, but you will be forever locked to him -- emotionally, physically, or even more.

Melody Anne

#7. Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.

Jennifer Saunders

#8. I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.

Frank Spotnitz

#9. The world is in great need of more music education. When students play music, it allows a part of their artistic mind to express itself, which is very important in helping to balance a child intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally.

Paul Reed Smith

#10. I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.

Jewel

#11. People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?

Tori Amos

#12. ...don't simplify your life so you can do more. Simplify your life so you can focus on what matters - and you are what matters. Simplifying your life means focusing on who you are physically, emotionally, and spiritually. If you want to choose joy daily, that's the place to start.

Kay Warren

#13. I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.

Isabel Allende

#14. I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries emotionally and musically. I took a break and I learnt software and programming a little bit, and that's how I designed my live machine, which I've been using for years.

Jamie Lidell

#15. My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

Laura Mvula

#16. Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

Mel Brooks

#17. What good is wealth if one is spiritually, emotionally, and mentally bankrupt?

Carlos Wallace

#18. For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.

Ian McDiarmid

#19. Filming is physically and emotionally hard, especially acting in something like this, where we go into the honest feelings of these people. But it's also very exciting because there's an adrenaline that's pumping (through you) when you're doing these scenes.

June Squibb

#20. However, those who are committed to INFPs know that their mates love to eradicate their frequent bouts of loneliness by spending lots of time connecting emotionally and physically, whether it's snuggling on the couch and watching a movie or just reading side-by-side in bed.

Diana Jackson

#21. As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

Elliot Cowan

#22. I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.

Domhnall Gleeson

#23. Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Ken Hill

#24. Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

Lena Headey

#25. Racing takes everything you've got
intellectually, emotionally, physically
and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Janet Guthrie

#26. You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacation, and I don't mean to say anything negative about the show. It's just a different kind of work. Emotionally it's taxing and complicated, and that's a great thing.

Jennifer Carpenter

#27. Sometimes I think her chest is made of ice, and she has to stay emotionally cold to hide the smell of a roting heart.

Anne Bishop

#28. For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

Patrick Ness

#29. As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

Quentin Tarantino

#30. I believe you can be young and compete in gymnastics if you have a coach who is looking out for you and if there is a good gym environment where the coaches are taking care of you emotionally and physically.

Dominique Moceanu

#31. It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.

Judith Jamison

#32. I realize that although I'd like to make films as a career after I'm done playing, I really love basketball; I really love my career, an opportunity to compete every day and to push myself physically, mentally and emotionally.

Steve Nash

#33. All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

Alain LeRoy Locke

#34. Sometimes life's lessons may not be easily labeled; and we may not understand simply because we are too close to the situation (emotionally). Bad things and tragedy strike all around us with no obvious reasons but somewhere in this "the phoenix will rise from the ashes".

Nehali Lalwani

#35. Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

Vinnie Jones

#36. After a breakup or divorce, you have the power to heal and become emotionally stronger, more compassionate, understanding, resilient, prettier, healthier, happier and more successful, but you must focus on yourself.

Linda Alfiori

#37. I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.

Veronica Webb

#38. I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

James Gray

#39. People with autism react physically to feelings of happiness and sadness. So when something happens that affects me emotionally, my body seizes up as if struck by lightning.

Naoki Higashida

#40. Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances ... If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

James C. Humes

#41. It seemed inequitable at best that one could and did gain a reputation for things that left one both physically and emotionally unsatisfied.

Thomm Quackenbush

#42. After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other.

Mike Birbiglia

#43. Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.

Sarah MacLean

#44. What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

Eva Hesse

#45. Emotionally, our faith is often muddled by fear, hesitancy, and doubt. But our feelings become irrelevant when Jesus is the object of our faith - when He alone is the One in whom we trust ... not ourselves, not our emotions, not our abilities ... but Him alone.

Wendy Blight

#46. At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally.

Jake Holmes

#47. In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.

Brenton Thwaites

#48. You're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place.

Marianne Williamson

#49. I have fallen for someone who's so emotionally shut down, I will only get hurt- deep down I know this- someone who by his own admission is completely fucked up.

E.L. James

#50. I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

A.J. Ayer

#51. I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.

Spike Jonze

#52. I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.

Hunter Tylo

#53. So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

Sting

#54. Don't educate people; touch them emotionally. Remember that people want to be scared or they want to be made happy or they want to be made sad.

Larry Winget

#55. I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

Ken Livingstone

#56. But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

Edward Hirsch

#57. Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

Gary Oldman

#58. Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and corporeally. Try to assimilate new ideas by trying out the rhythms of those you encounter.

Alexandra Katehakis

#59. He wanted Zane to feel that too, to have that assurance both physically and emotionally. He would do whatever he had to do to make sure that Zane knew he was his. He

Abigail Roux

#60. I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

Jack Nicholson

#61. Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it's about creating a clearing. It's opening up an emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question.

Brene Brown

#62. And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some of the shots are very short and obviously many of them take so long, you're waiting months and months and months before you can see if it's going to be working emotionally.

Charlie Kaufman

#63. What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.

Paul Feig

#64. The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.

Alyssa Milano

#65. Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

Cameron Diaz

#66. The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.

Joe Rogan

#67. If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us ...

Antoinette Bosco

#68. Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

Margaret Cho

#69. I missed the idea of marriage, the one you had when you were young and emotionally unblemished.

Tarryn Fisher

#70. Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.

Ann Landers

#71. Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected. By parenting not for obedience but for relationship, kids are naturally inclined to follow your lead.

Kelly Bartlett

#72. My dad, like many Southern men, is this very emotionally expressive person who isn't as articulate in words about his feelings as he is with breaking a chair or something like that.

Lucy Alibar

#73. Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.

Philip Schultz

#74. And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

Jane Mayer

#75. I was vested emotionally in 'Battlestar.' I really loved the thematic things. I don't feel it really got its shot, and I can't blame anyone else; I was at the center of that.

Glen A. Larson

#76. Simon winced as the man fought for words. He didn't appear to be stuttering so much as emotionally overcome, but it was never pleasant when one couldn't get a sentence out.

Julia Quinn

#77. I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.

Jillian Medoff

#78. From New Delhi to New York, from Durban to Rio; women and
girls are been hunted down by rapists, abused by pedophiles and
emotionally decapitated by a society that is becoming increasingly
hostile to the womenfolk

Oche Otorkpa

#79. Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally ... Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.

Stanley Greenspan

#80. My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

Patti Smith

#81. I breastfed both my kids for two years so, you know it was very tiring emotionally and physically.

Isla Fisher

#82. I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.

Jon Foreman

#83. Large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst investments after long periods of winning.

William Eckhardt

#84. I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Henry Rollins

#85. Evangelical preaching was also characterized by the extemporaneous interlacing of biblical passages with descriptive evangelical terminology that was designed to awaken people emotionally to their sins and cause them to tremble, shed tears, and fall to the ground.

Grant H. Palmer

#86. I still couldn't believe that he was actually mine; an international super assassin in love with an emotionally unbalanced kid from Podunk, Illinois. Adn I was his.

Nicole Castle

#87. The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking," as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.

Steve Maraboli

#88. No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#89. I act freely when I am tuned in, centred and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#90. Blame is one of the gravest problems we face, spiritually and emotionally. It keeps us more concerned about being "good" than about being honest.

Henry Cloud

#91. Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#92. I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.

Jon Favreau

#93. When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

Aaron Zigman

#94. I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally ... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

Antony Sher

#95. I think I might be bi-polar. It's not normal to be this emotionally unstable.

Michelle N. Onuorah

#96. If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

Jack Lemmon

#97. The meek shall indeed inherit the earth. They have the power to act rationally instead of reacting emotionally.

David M. Butcher

#98. It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.

Theodore J. Kaczynski

#99. There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in an emotionally satisfying faith is repugnant to me. I believe that we are ultimately directed Godward but that this journey is often impeded by emotion

Flannery O'Connor

#100. What? Really? And I thought I was just emotionally withdrawn." She pulled her feet up, hugging her knees. "I'm also incapable going to be your next brilliant observation.

Marissa Meyer