Barbara Fredrickson Quotes

Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

Barbara Fredrickson

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• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Love
  • Emotions

• Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Gratitude
  • Emotions

• The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Pretty
  • See
  • Emotions

• As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Fun
  • Audience
  • Emotions

• Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Emotions

• We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Important
  • Power
  • Science

• Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Happy
  • Wisdom
  • Human

• Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Emotions
  • Harmony

• The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Laugh
  • Emotions

• I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Emotions

• I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Me
  • Anxiety
  • Emotions

• I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

  

  Han Suyin
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Emotions

• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Teacher
  • Emotions
  • Tastes

• I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Important
  • True

• You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Soul
  • Yourself
  • Emotions

• I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Game
  • Pretty

• The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe that in terms of an individual's development they are followed by mechanisms of secondary emotions, which occur once we begin experiencing feelings and forming systematic connections between categories of objects and situations, on the one hand, and primary emotions, on the other.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Emotional

• People are afraid to think, or they don't know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can't be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened. All over the world people are seeking peace of mind, but there can be no peace of mind without strength of mind.

  

  Eric Gutkind
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Afraid

• The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Future
  • Present

• The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast. Stopping in the center of the pasture, I could hear the winds clearly. No turning back, they pronounced. The brief autumn was gone.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Winds
  • Brief
  • Pronounced

• My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Tough

• Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Emotions
  • Luxuries
  • Functioning