Julian Baggini Quotes

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.

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

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

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

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

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

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

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

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.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

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

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

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

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

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

We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

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.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

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.

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.