Michael Crichton Quotes

So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein.

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.

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.

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

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

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

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.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

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.

I'm an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I'm strong with others.

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

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

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.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

It's actually kind of a skill to act cold - to have the mannerisms of being cold when it's the complete opposite of how you behave when you're hot.

We Finns don't show much emotion but it doesn't mean we don't have any.