Unemotional Quotes:

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

- Suzanne Farrell

topic: Dancer, Unemotional

Don’t let them see you weak.

- Ann Aguirre

source: Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.213, Macmillan

topic: Weak, Unemotional, Tarzan Movie

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: The Sign of the Four ch. 1 (1890)

topic: Cold, Should, Unemotional, John Watson, Romanticism

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

- Nat King Cole

topic: Emotional, Mind, May, Unemotional, Frame Of Mind

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: "CNN Newsroom" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2009.

topic: Jobs, Emotional, Judging, Emotional Response, Unemotional

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

- James J. Kilpatrick

source: James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.128, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Moving, Writing, Tears, Unemotional

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Art, Emotional, Self, Unemotional

What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.

- Brian Eno

topic: Emotional, People, Levels, Unemotional

The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.

- Robert Graves

source: Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

topic: Simple, Emotional, Differences, Formation, Unemotional

More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.

- Merrill Markoe

topic: Mother, Children, Hate, Personality Traits, Unemotional

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

- Chris Evert

topic: Missing, Age, Young, Unemotional

Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own analysis and judgement, they respond to market forces not with blind emotion but with calculated reason. Successful investors, for example, demonstrate caution in frothy markets and steadfast conviction in panicky ones. Indeed, the very way an investor views the market and it’s price fluctuations is a key factor in his or her ultimate investment success or failure.

- Seth Klarman

topic: Successful, Keys, Views, Investment Success, Success Or Failure

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

- Lucinda Childs

topic: Ideas, Dancer, Cold, Unemotional

What does seem to be a constant is that I write more emotional stories the older I get. I think a lot of that has to do with growing up in a patriarchal structure where unemotional intellect (male) is taken more seriously than delving into emotions (female), and gradually freeing myself from those expectations.

- Karin Tidbeck

source: Source: www.raintaxi.com

topic: Growing Up, Taken, Writing, Unemotional, Delving

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.

- Berenice Abbott

topic: Photography, Ideas, People, Good Lighting, Unemotional

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

topic: Art, Emotional, Self, Pseudo Intellectuals, Unemotional

Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

- Anne Fausto-Sterling

source: Anne Fausto-Sterling (1992). “Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men”, p.12, Basic Books

topic: Sex, World, Boat, Unemotional

Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are positive disadvantages in approaching a planet where-as has become clear-anything is possible... The fact is that in spite of his cautious nature the scrupulous Giese more than once jumped to premature conclusions. Even when on their guard, human beings inevitably theorize.

- Stanislaw Lem

topic: Men, Imagination, Facts, Solaris, Unemotional

People think I am unemotional because my voice is flat and a bit boring. It is unfortunate but it is just the way it is. I've tried to change it but it doesn't seem to make a difference. The truth is, I have lots of emotions inside. I cried after the semi-final at Wimbledon [2012] because I was proud to reach the final and I knew how much it meant to the country. I cried after the [losing] final [to Federer], too, for different reasons. I felt I had let people down. I think people warmed to that. They could see how much it hurt.

- Andy Murray

topic: Country, Hurt, Thinking, Federer, Unemotional

People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.

- M. E. W. Sherwood

topic: Memories, People, Giving, Palimpsest, Unemotional