Richard Russo Quotes

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.

I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

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

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

I can access emotions very easily.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

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

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

For years I used to think that you had to hide your emotions to show that you are strong.

Part of growing up is learning to live with your emotions; today’s shortcut is to believe whatever your feelings are, they’re justified.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.