Andre Gide Quotes

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

The maximum number of emotions that I can cover is what I want to do.

Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

I can access emotions very easily.

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

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

As I get older, my emotions are closer to the surface.

I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that I could find real emotion in a person.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

Empathy is about two people - two people meeting, getting to know each other and tuning in to what the other person is thinking and feeling.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.