"Confidence equals security equals positive emotion equals better performance," says Tony Schwartz, the president and CEO of The Energy Project and the author of Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live.
This anxiety is not an equal opportunity emotion.
"He has immersed us for years in an examination of addiction, twelve-step recoveries, teen-age depression, modern pharmacology, suicides, sexual indulgence, family betrayals, financial manipulation, accidents, heart attacks, strokes, death and dying and always, afterward, the inability to summon a language to equal the emotion.
He has immersed us for years in an examination of addiction, twelve-step recoveries, teen-age depression, modern pharmacology, suicides, sexual indulgence, family betrayals, financial manipulation, accidents, heart attacks, strokes, death and dying––and always, afterward, the inability to summon a language to equal the emotion.
"It's an equal-opportunity emotion.
Yelling equals excited emotions.
Often, they do so with an equal display of emotion: Mrs. Jean-Paul's husband, for example, is believed to have set himself on fire.
At times it falls into the "speed and volume equal intensity of emotion" trap and curdles characters' grief and remorse into something more maudlin.
Senate Democrats responded with equal measure of emotion, deciding in an angry caucus meeting that they would defy the House any way they could — rejecting even measures they had considered as inching toward reason just 24 hours prior.
Nearly nine decades ago, Helen Keller stood before the Lions Clubs and asked, "Will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness; no little deaf, blind child untaught; no blind man or woman unaided?" Speaking at their 1925 International Convention in Cedar Point, Ohio, Helen Keller delivered a speech that was equal parts eloquence, emotion and inspiration.
