Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

Diana Vreeland

Without emotion there is no beauty

Dean Koontz

The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

Daniel Goleman

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

Daniel Goleman

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership.

Daniel Goleman

Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.

Daniel Goleman

....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.

Daniel Goleman

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

Daniel Goleman

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Daniel Goleman

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Bob Dylan

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

Bob Dylan

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

Bob Dylan

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

Bob Dylan

The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

Bong Joon-ho

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.

Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.

Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.

I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

Brad Pitt

I like Billy Beane for his idiosyncrasies - that he can't watch the games without getting too emotional, that he often has food down his shirt, that he tends to break a few chairs now and then.These things make him human.

Bono

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Anurag Kashyap

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

Bruce Lee

You need emotional content....

Bruce Lee

While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.

Brittany Snow

I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

Edwidge Danticat

Anger is a wasted emotion.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

Edmund Burke

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.