Emotional Expression Quotes:

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

- Gary Burton

topic: Player, Emotional, Expression, Emotional Expression

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

- Susie Orbach

source: "Bite by bite to success" by Susie Steiner, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2002.

topic: Confused, Mean, Emotional, Emotional Expression, Emotional Literacy

In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

- Chen-Ning Yang

source: Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

topic: Frustration, Emotional, Expression, Emotional Expression

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

- Julian Baggini

topic: Emotional, Expression, Boss, Emotional Expression

I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.

- Guy Pearce

topic: Struggle, Emotional, Expression, Emotional Expression, Explain Yourself

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

topic: Loyalty, Laughter, Hate, Emotional Expression, Anger And Fear

Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

- Max More

topic: Mean, Technology, Emotional, Social Control, Emotional Expression

Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression.

- La Meri

topic: Emotional, Expression, Pure, Emotional Expression

By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

- Kate Winslet

source: "'I did have moments where I'd say, Oh my God ...'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2008.

topic: Beautiful, Dream, Jobs, Positive Person, Emotional Expression