Emotional Quotes — Page 30

SA

Cartoonist

“Priority-wise, it simply makes sense to take care of yourself before you start searching for a higher meaning. You aren't much good to anyone else if you're unhealthy, a financial burden, or an emotional basket case. Fix yourself before you turn outward. It's best for everyone.”

Wise Emotional Priorities

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TA

Tony Adams

Footballer

“I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.”

Football Emotional Soccer

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TK

Tracy K. Smith

Poet, Professor

“Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.”

Emotional Smart Lonely

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TP

Tracy Pollan

Actress

“It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.”

Character Dark Emotional

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TC

Toni Cade Bambara

Writer, Activist

“... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.”

Men Emotional Intelligent

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Seth Godin

Author, Entrepreneur

“Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.”

Artist Simple Emotional

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RW

Roberta Williams

Game Designer

“I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.”

Emotional Adventure Travel

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SS

Sufjan Stevens

Musician

“The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.”

Thinking Jobs Emotional

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”

Needs Emotional Passionate

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Octavia Butler

Author, Novelist

“I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.”

People Emotional Work Out

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Gabriel Mann

Actor, Musician

“Maybe that's partly why I'm an actor, I'm a fairly empathetic, emotional person, so I get very, very involved when it's really, really great when I'm watching - so it takes me a second to click back into reality again.”

Reality Actors Emotional

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Kanye West

Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer

“Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.”

Emotional Fonts

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