Emotional Reactions

Language that tells us,

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said. Edwin Arlington Robinson

If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story. Edward Joseph Harrington O’Brien

Children have very sharp

Children have very sharp powers of observation – probably sharper than adults – yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. Donna Tartt

As you follow the

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director’s job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction. Don Bluth

Learning to just say

Learning to just say no to emotional reactions isn’t repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won’t have anything to repress. Doc Childre

You really do think

You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don’t have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting … Read more

I could tell you

I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you’ll settle it by flipping a coin. But don’t go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails? David Brooks

With the novels, I

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can’t resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I’ll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page. Chuck Palahniuk

Successful prime-time television of

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something. Chris Hayes

You can never predict

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people. Andy Warhol