Kenneth Tynan Quotes

I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

I'm an emotional person. I chose films based on emotions.

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.

Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

When something feels right, that means it is right for you. Pay attention to your authentic feelings, and follow where they lead.

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety.

About the only question that we would say and this is a big one in our lives that we would say you don't just use pure reason to decide the answer to is anything that affects your happiness, because then gut and reason answer very different questions. So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?"