Emotive Quotes
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In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry.
With his very emotive body language at the board he
shows and displays all his emotions.
I don't.
- Vladimir Kramnik

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins
of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
- Jean Philippe Rameau

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues
because you can play it easily.
It's not a style that's difficult to pick up.
It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
- Boz Scaggs

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955;
later I used the term rational emotive.
Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
- Albert Ellis

Previously people were treated anonymously particular
on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive.
They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached.
- David Gill

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you
of something-it might make you happy,
it might make you sad, but it is very emotive.
And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
- Nick Rhodes

This is not a rock opera.
This is not Tommy.
I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
- John Mellencamp

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put
it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically.
It must go somewhere.
- Sting

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can
put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote
and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them,
because they are the language and the behavior.
It's all a tour-de-force performance.
- Sally Kirkland

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious,
and manifests itself in the body.
- Irene Claremont de Castillejo

Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series

There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung

Anger is a destructive emotion
that becomes instinctive over the years.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am a being of free-will,
and I CHOOSE each and every action I make,
every thought I think, and every emotion I feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West

Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it,
then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and
the thought has found words.
- Robert Frost

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion,
but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

Real love is never a selfish emotion.
If you want something from someone -
especially if that something is sex -
what you are feeling is not true love.
True love is about wanting happiness for the person you love -
and not about seeking happiness for yourself.
Fortunately, in most cases our own loving presence
is the greatest gift we can give to a person we love.
Nonetheless, the litmus test of love is knowing
we would choose never to see that person again
if we believed that distance would bring them greater happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got.
Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
- Eubie Blake

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
- Leo Tolstoy

Give your time and efforts freely or not at all.
When you are tempted to say,
"Oh, if I have to, I'll skip my golf game
and watch my daughter play soccer," don't do it.
Either generate the heart-felt emotion
to make the free-will gift,
"I'd love to watch your game today, Sandy,"
or the honesty to decline the request gracefully.
Martyrdom doesn't create happiness
for any of the parties involved.
An honest, "No" is preferable to a coerced "Yes."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

The River of Life flows without emotion.
The River surges. The River quiets.
The River overflows its banks. The River dries to a trickle.
The River swirls and storms. The River becomes calm.
The River runs clear. The River runs dark with silt.
The River is indifferent to what benefit
or what harm is caused by its water.
The River is the River, and that is all there is to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and
emotion from almost every aspect of music,
and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
- Aimee Mann

Sex is emotion in motion.
- Mae West

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong
personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't
have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
- Galen Rowell

An emotional man may possess no humor,
but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion,
sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
- Constance Rourke

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle
joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
- Andrew Wyeth

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important,
but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.
- Donald Norman

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The
lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
- Jay Alan Sekulow

Sometime I write a song off a central idea,
instead of emotion.
- Ken Hill

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly,
but because he felt deeply.
- John Buchan

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion.
That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
- Clive Bell

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
- Jim Morrison

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in
order to exploit the human race.
- Blake Edwards

From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the
emotion behind a particular character's story.
- Frank Bruno

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:
it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
- William Wordsworth

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or
give it the emotion it deserves.
- Johnny Vegas

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain
and the emotion I was going through,
I put into my music.
- Keith Sweat

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness,
the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
- Ivor Novello

But by reading them again and again finally I was able
to grasp the essential part.
What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me!
I wept for joy.
- Ho Chi Minh

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion,
but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality,
but an escape from personality.
But, of course, only those who have personality and
emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
- T. S. Eliot

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
- Juan Gris

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
- Robert Smithson

If you want to make someone feel emotion,
you have to make them let go.
Listening to something is an act of surrender.
- Brian Eno

It's all emotion.
But there's nothing wrong with emotion.
When we are in love, we are not rational;
we are emotional.
When we are on vacation, we are not rational;
we are emotional.
- Frank Luntz

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
- Robert Quillen

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences.
She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think
there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.
- LeAnn Rimes

But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
- Jim Hodges

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
- Stendhal

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory,
it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.
- James Spader

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
- Neko Case

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion.
It's not always easy to find but it's still there.
- Hugh Jackman

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization,
the dominating emotion of man was fear.
- Paul Harris

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion,
but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
- John B. S. Haldane

I question what emotion Manilow touches.
People are entertained by him.
But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything
that Barry Manilow sings.
- Paul Simon

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
- Paul Cezanne

It's easier when you play.
You get your emotion out.
You scream.
You yell.
You do whatever you want.
You play.
But it's tough to sit.
- Goran Ivanisevic

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture,
a still life, perhaps something like a silent film.
You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
- Helena Christensen

So much depends on the performance, and here you are
also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.
- David Gower

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing.
That way I can compensate it.
- Beth Gibbons

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice,
and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
- Max Eastman

I have always used emotion as a writing tool.
That goes back to me being on the stage.
- Anne McCaffrey

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion,
all have to come from the characters.
Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
- Nora Roberts

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
- Meryl Streep