George Eliot Quotes

It is easier to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

George Eliot

• Emotion
• Consequences
• Venting

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• I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

  

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• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  

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• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  

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• When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

  

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• All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

  

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• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

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• The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'

  

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• Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

  

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• I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

  

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• Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

  

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• To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.

  

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• Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

  

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• Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

  

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• It is easier to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

  

  George Eliot
  • Emotion
  • Consequences
  • Venting