Oatley Quotes

#1. Empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).

Mikkel Wallentin

#2. Sage: "Conner's held you down for so long, you've forgotten what it's like to breathe free air."
Imogen: "And you've given your life to his control forever. You'll never breathe free air again.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#3. The opposite of creativity is compliance to external imposition, having for one reason or another to bend to the will of another.

Keith Oatley

#4. Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

Noel Coward

#5. The end is not the reward; the path you take, the emotions that course through you as you grasp life - that is the reward.

Jamie Magee

#6. Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Ralph Cudworth

#7. You can't erase me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

Prince Philip

#9. Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

Wesley Morris