- Nov 07, 2020
Emotional Quotes
Feelings, taken seriously and sometimes not.
This set ranges from praise for a memoir's understated emotional pull to a comic complaint about being emotionally shut down, showing how differently the word can land. Related theme: Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
London was my first Olympics, but I tried for three beforehand. I was measured for the Olympic uniform three times before London, and I finally made the team. It was a big deal, and it was quite emotional, which is probably one of the reasons I didn't perform at my best.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
- Investment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are emotional relationships in any business.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
- Nov 07, 2020