William James Quotes

A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

William James

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• Emotion
• Nonentity

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• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

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

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Emotion
  • Scared
  • Fearless

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Emotion
  • More
  • Show

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

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Good
  • Done
  • Career

• Sex is emotion in motion.

  

  Mae West
  • Sex
  • Emotion
  • Motion

• 'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.

  

  Sampha
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Leave

• 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!'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Strong
  • Emotion
  • Talk

• I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Humans

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

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Best

• I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Human
  • Emotion
  • Writer

• 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.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Perfect
  • Human
  • Emotion

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Stage

• To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • May
  • Humans
  • Littles

• Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Fear
  • Emotion
  • Unleashed

• I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Sometimes

• All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Humans
  • Solitude
  • Aloneness

• With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Artist
  • Wise
  • Humans

• Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Confidence
  • Create
  • Greed

• She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Silent
  • Heard
  • Speaking

• America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, wed understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Hate
  • Problem
  • Fall

• Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • People
  • Writing
  • Civilization

• A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

  

  William James
  • Humans
  • Emotion
  • Nonentity