Alan Lightman Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Law Quotes

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

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The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

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I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Memorable Quotes , Emotional Quotes

We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Passion Quotes , Emotional Quotes

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

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Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

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Tags : Alan Price Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Fantasy Quotes

And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dream Quotes , Emotional Quotes

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Emotional Quotes

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Sex Quotes , Emotional Quotes

Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Law Quotes

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Stories Quotes

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Lying Quotes , Emotional Quotes

Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just dealing with comedy.

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Tags : Adam Sandler Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Taught Us Quotes

I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.

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Tags : A.M. Homes Quotes , Real Quotes , Emotional Quotes

Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.

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Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Emotional Intelligence Quotes

No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.

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Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Emotional Quotes

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Humans Quotes