Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wynton Marsalis

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

The overtime was an emotional issue. Our kids were shell-shocked that we were in that situation.

Ben Bass

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

Carl Rogers

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

Carl Rogers

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

Carl Sagan

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Anthony Storr

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Bill Hicks

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Bertrand Russell

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

That was a very emotional win for us last year.

That was the first time he told me he loved me and he was proud of me. He wasn't a very emotional man, so him doing that really meant a lot.

Martha Beck

Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'

We've got some pretty emotional players, and they play hard. But you've got to play smart.

Miguel de Cervantes

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Olly Murs

If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!

Most don't take time to do that. It was a tremendous, positive, emotional experience to spend time with him.

Why would they teach kids how to have sex when there are so many physical and emotional dangers?

I thought it was really emotional and you really showed how good you are.

Beck

As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I’m doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health.

We found a reason for doing the show. There's an emotional tie, now. There is now a vital reason for exploring this topic as a play.

Those are two very emotional games for us, big rivals for us.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't maintain that emotional level. I guess I'm lucky we have another week left in spring training, and that will give me an opportunity to recover.

Jennifer Aniston

I was upset about the Vanity Fair article. I had one moment when I got emotional because I hadn't sat down with an interviewer since this whole debacle took place. It happened for a second and then it was over.

I was glad to get out there. It was emotional for me, just putting on the uniform and being able to take the field at Jacobs Field.

Elena Dementieva

I think she's emotional but she doesn't show you her emotion on the court. I'm sure she can be nervous. She can be nervous but she doesn't like to show you.

It does fulfill some sort of emotional need that they have to own these items.

Yesterday was tough ... it was tough. I found out the results about 10 minutes before practice was over. It was an emotional situation.

We don't go on a search-and-destroy mission looking for these. If it isn't a traffic hazard, we tend to let these things go. It is a very emotional type of situation.

We can't worry about who they have playing or who they don't have playing or where they're getting their emotional lift. This is Monday Night Football. This is a huge game where everybody is watching. If you can't come out with the intensity you need to play, you don't have a pulse.

When you sign on here, you understand this organization. There is so much soul to it, ... It's just the way it is. Players understand that. This has been very emotional for all of them. That's what makes this organization the way it is. There is so much personal feeling in this place. They understand and value that.

One of the most emotional moments for me was when I was talking to a woman in a town that practically did not exist anymore,