Arabella Weir Quotes

My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

I'm an emotional guy.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

I'm a very emotional person.

I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also banged doors and fought, as I have seen my mom do that when she would fight with my dad. Everything that I've learnt is from them, so I've never struggled to express myself.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things.

I am a very emotional person.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

I'm a pretty emotional person.

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out.