Browsing Quotes With Tag: emotion (9)
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If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.
Speaker: Warren BuffettSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water; they are good servants but bad masters.
Speaker: AesopPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you tell me how you get your feelings of importance, I’ll tell you what you are. That determines your character.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.’
If you would impress an audience, be impressed yourself. Your spirit, shining through your eyes, radiating through your voice, and proclaiming itself through your manner, will communicate itself to your audience.Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
So, to feel brave, act as if we were brave. Use all of our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When passions come upon men in strength beyond due measure, their gift is neither one of glory nor of greatness.
…May I know the blessing of a heart that is not passion’s slave; no fairer gift can the gods bestow.” ChorusSpeaker: EurpiidesPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 12:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He knew, of course he knew, that the song couldn’t last forever, that the evening couldn’t last forever, that he would soon be home tucked up in bed, that singing round the piano with a depressive hippy and her weirdo son wouldn’t kill him. He knew all that, but he didn’t feel it. He couldn’t do anything with these people after all, he could see that now. He’d been stupid to think there was anything here for him.
When he got home he put a Pet Shop Boys CD on, and watched Prisoner: Cell Block H with the sound down. He wanted to hear people who didn’t mean it, and he wanted to watch people he could laugh at. He got drunk, too; he filled a glass with ice and poured himself scotch after scotch. And as the drink began to take hold, he realized that people who meant it were much more likely to kill themselves than people who didn’t: he couldn’t recall having even the faintest urge to take his own life, and he found it hard to imagine that he ever would. When it came down to it, he just wasn’t that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing “Both Sides Now” with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother. He wasn’t much bothered either way about anything, and that, he knew, would guarantee him a long and depression-free life. He’d made a big mistake thinking that good works were a way forward for him. They weren’t. they drove you mad. Fiona did good works and they had driven her mad: she was vulnerable, messed-up, and inadequate. Will had a system going here that was going to whizz him effortlessly to the grave. He didn’t want to fuck it up now.Speaker: Nick HornbySource: About a BoyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!