Emotional Swings Quotes

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

Life's a rollercoaster. You're up one minute; you're down one minute. But who doesn't like rollercoasters?

I think going from laughing to crying to laughing to crying - making those quick turns adds years to your life.

Anytime we lose a game, there it goes. The roller coaster's going down.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

... fluctuating emotions ... [lead] us to excesses of both intervention and abdication.

I've just never seen a live event [like Oscar] where the emotional swings - it was just stunning.And it was interesting because, on one hand, "Moonlight" is one of these, like, generational pictures that you wanted to see win. But at the same time, if "La La Land" had won, I completely understood.

I was a quicksilver girl who saw every leaf on every tree. For me, there was no middle ground between sinking and flying, and once I was into my early adult years, my roller coaster got wilder and faster: I seemed to rise and fall with the same reckless velocity.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

That's part of the NBA. It's a lot of ups and downs.

It happens in football: you are loved one day and hated the next.

It's emotional highs and lows in the game of golf.

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

I had just broke in and everything was going so well, to have it all ripped away like that is not nice. That's part of football, and that stuff happens all the time. You go from the highest of highs, and then it's taken away and you're from there to rock bottom.

Touring is real demanding. You swing between sadness and euphoria. But for us to cry about it isn't fair.

This game is crazy. You're up and down, up and down. When you feel good, you want to be there every time for the team.

Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.

Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as "the goddess of social life" and the next day she'll regret that she's the "ultimate in nerdosity.

There are so many high-highs and there are so many low-lows in this game.

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

Every high has an equal, measurable low.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

You go to the edit room and see one scene which has come out fantastically, and you feel the film will set records. By evening, you look at the budget figures or something that hasn't worked out and ask yourself - what if this doesn't work?