Emotional Response Quotes:

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

- Thomas S. Buechner

topic: Lying, Power, Emotional, Emotional Response

By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Disappointment, Anger, Mean, Emotional Response

Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.

- Gary Zukav

topic: Emotional, People, Energy, Emotional Response

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

- Joyce Carol Oates

source: Joyce Carol Oates (1981). “Contraries”, New York : Oxford University Press

topic: Emotional, Challenges, World, Emotional Response

Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.

- William P. Young

topic: Believe, Emotional, Thinking, Emotional Response

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

- Ozwald Boateng

source: "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

topic: Emotional, People, Creative, Emotional Response

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

- Kim Jong Il

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Emotional, Plot, Film, Emotional Response

Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.28, Penguin

topic: Spiritual, Selfish, Character, Emotional Response

I know I have different priorities when I am close to dreaming and coming out of dreaming. I notice I am connected to people in a different way, and connected to the earth. For me, I have exactly the same emotional responses when I go through into shamanic trance.

- Amy Hardie

source: "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

topic: Dream, Emotional, People, Emotional Response

It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are born into a system of subordination. We are not born into equality and do not have equality to eroticise. We are not born into power and do not have power to eroticise. We are born into subordination and it is in subordination that we learn our sexual and emotional responses. It would be surprising indeed if any woman reared under male supremacy was able to escape the forces constructing her into a member of an inferior slave class.

- Sheila Jeffreys

topic: Sex, Emotional, Class, Born Free, Subordination

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.

- Harry Shearer

topic: Emotional, Guy, Would Be, Suppressing, Emotional Response

It's really amazing to be a part of something that people have an emotional response to, even though it's a network sitcom. When you get a chance to meet fans or interact with them, you realize that there are a lot of people who the show speaks to, and that they really get something out of it, beyond just laughing. That's really fulfilling.

- Gillian Jacobs

source: "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

topic: Emotional, People, Laughing, Emotional Response, Really Amazing

You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.

- Stephen Daldry

topic: Contentious, Emotional Response

I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.

- Ellen Dissanayake

topic: Art, Emotional, Space, Emotional Response

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

- Emanuel Ax

topic: Emotional, Social, Should, Emotional Response

Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand, give us access to millions of sounds. When I put the two together, the result is unique, and it’s not only pleasing to the ear, but produces emotional responses that neither of the two can achieve on their own.

- Yanni

topic: Unique, Emotional, Hands, Emotional Response

True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Attitude, Commitment, Responsibility, Developing, Altruism

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

- April Greiman

source: April Greiman (1990). “Hybrid imagery: the fusion of technology and graphic design”, Watson-Guptill Pubns

topic: Emotional, Design, Experience, Emotional Response

I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

- Allan Stratton

topic: Drama, Writing, Character, Emotional Response

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.

- Ruth Bernhard

topic: Photography, Spiritual, Emotional, Spiritual Connection, Emotional Response

An exceptionally positive emotional response indicates that you're summoning the divine energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in nonresistant manner.

- Wayne Dyer

source: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.139, Hay House, Inc

topic: Emotional, Energy, Flow, Emotional Response, Summoning

But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.

- Bill Brandt

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Photography, Believe, Emotional, Emotional Response

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

- Jeff Lindsay

topic: Real, Emotional, Fake, Emotional Response, Real Human

Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.

- Tim Burton

topic: Emotional, Thinking, Way, Emotional Response

Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

- Yael Cohen

topic: Positivity, Emotional, Response, Emotional Response

Where is the video of Kanye [West] telling me he was going to call me 'that b***h' in his song? It doesn't exist because it never happened. You don't get to control someone's emotional response to being called 'that b***h' in front of the entire world.

- Taylor Swift

source: Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

topic: Song, Emotional, Control Someone, Emotional Response

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

- Katie Holmes

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Book, Character, Emotional, Emotional Response

To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.

- Howard Cutler

topic: Pain, Loneliness, Buddhism, Emotional Response, Helplessness

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

- Felicity Jones

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Exercise, Emotional, Brain, Love Literature, Emotional Response

If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.

- Sandy Skoglund

topic: Emotional, Thinking, Assistants, Meatballs, Emotional Response

We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

- Anthony Marra

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Children, Emotional, Light, Terminal Illness, Emotional Response

If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

- Charlie Cox

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Character, Emotional, Good Questions, Emotional Response

It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have an emotional response it results in a physiological dumpage into our bloodstream. It flushes through and out of our body in less than 90 seconds.

- Jill Bolte Taylor

topic: Emotional, Body, Results, Emotional Response

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

- Colin Greenwood

source: "Radiohead". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 28, 2008.

topic: Emotional, Important, Kind, Emotional Response

I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.

- Ntozake Shange

topic: Emotional, Average, Ideas, Intellectual Life, Emotional Response

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

- Harold Lasswell

topic: Emotional, Atheism, Essentials, Social Institutions, Emotional Response

My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.

- Daniel Tammet

topic: Math, Emotional, Numbers, Emotional Response

When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

- Laura Linney

topic: Emotional, People, Identity, Emotional Response

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

- Nicholas D'Agosto

topic: Zero, Emotional, Blood, Emotional Response

If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys, to the beauty and fragility of the Earth, it is all about being broken open, allowing ourselves to step out from out hardened veneers and expose our core, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable in our emotional response to the world. And how can we not respond? This is what I mean by being 'broken open.' To engage. To love. Any one of these actions of the heart will lead to a personal transformation that bears collective gifts.

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: Penguin Random House interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

topic: Pain, Mean, Heart, Veneer, Emotional Response

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

- Michael K. Simpson

topic: Trust, Real, Emotional, Factions, Emotional Response

It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to things that might seem to threaten your particular social world. Education probably plays an important role in dampening that response by allowing the brain's frontal lobes (where much of the brain's conscious work goes on) to counteract the emotional responses with a more considered view, so explaining why education is invariably the friend of liberal politics.

- Robin Dunbar

source: Robin Dunbar (2011). “How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks”, p.170, Harvard University Press

topic: Emotional, Views, Play, Nervousness, Emotional Response

There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.

- Diablo Cody

topic: Strong, Emotional, Childhood, Emotional Response, Coasters

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

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

- Paul Getty

topic: Men, Emotional, Economy, Emotional Response

Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination.

- Jerry Greenfield

topic: Powerful, Caring, Emotional, Emotional Response

Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses.

- Max Dupain

topic: Eye, Emotional, Mind, Emotional Response

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

- Jane McGonigal

topic: Emotional, Games, Challenges, Emotional Response, Really Amazing

The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero.

- Alastair Reynolds

source: Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.278, Penguin

topic: Zero, Giving Up, Grief, Emotional Response, Human Capacity