Jonathan Haidt Quotes

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.

I think that's what we're all trying to do as actors, is create some sort of passion from people and allow them to have something to really care about and something they enjoy and look forward to on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, whatever it is, where you get to sit down and escape.

For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone's dead in the face, it's really boring.

I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.

You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work.

I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.

Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.

I really emotionally invest in everything that I do.

You can love me, you can hate me, but just don't be indifferent. Care about it enough to watch.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.

I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there's no chance to share emotion. Most of them are busy, [there are] explosions everywhere. So we got rid of all the background noise and we had to get rid of the guns.

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.

Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.