Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

If your heart was as big as your mouth you'd be real.

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

If I had not lived the life I had lived and did not have the wife I have and the children I have, I would never know how to play that role [of Dr. Bedsloe], and I wouldn't have any of those qualities. It's a real example of how it is true that the camera catches everything. Even the stuff you're trying to hide.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.

Find a balance between head and heart.

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

The biggest mistake we make in creating successful relationships is that we seek to experience who we are through others rather than allowing others to experience who they are through us.