Michael Foreman Quotes
Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.
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Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.
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All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.
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My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.
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The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
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Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn’t get all its oil from OPEC.
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The male is a biological accident: the y(male) gene is an incomplete x(female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion.... To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.
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Human beings are largely motivated by their emotional repertoire, manifested through their need for attachment, physical security, a sense of belonging and a positive personal and collective identity.
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.
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I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.
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I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.
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Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.
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Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
