Quotes About Emotional Instability

#1. Emotional instability for whatever reason can infect the workplace and lower productivity as surely as malfunctioning equipment.

Dianna Booher

#2. Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.

Mark Dvoretsky

#3. Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

Charles I Of England

#4. 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

#5. Like many shy people, once he began talking he seemed not to know how to stop; he lacked the social sleight of hand to change the subject, and he had no idea how to engage another person. Like a runaway vehicle, he plunged on, heedless.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

Winona Ryder

#7. It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.

Nancy Milford

#8. I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

Vijay Seshadri

#9. Everything is present in the world. However, your 'emotional state' does not allow it to come to you. 'Emotional' as in instability. While going to eat, one will worry, 'will I get food or not?' That indeed is instability. If you remain stable, then everything will come to you.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

Salman Rushdie

#11. When the world came to, it came, not to its senses, but to its madness.

Helen O'Reilly

#12. Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

Euripides

#13. Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. What? -- RICHARD M NIXON

Thomas Pynchon

#15. I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#16. Never was there a creature more appropriately placed to be the poster girl for euthanasia.

Dawn French