Emotional Block Quotes

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.

Human emotion and reaction is the primary block to productivity.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

When I'm not excited, it makes acting very hard for me.

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

Fear is such a huge thing that holds us back.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.

You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.” He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste.

If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow wrong or cannot last, you will not respond appropriately when happiness comes knocking at your door in the form of romantic love. No matter how much you may have waited and cried, you will not welcome love when it arrives-you will find a way to sabotage it. What a challenge to resist this temptation! What an opportunity for true spiritual growth and transformation-to defy your negative feelings and honor the gift that life offers you!

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

I've seen people that get onstage and sing while they have tears running down their face - I can't do that. When I cry, it starts like in my throat, so when I have something that's really emotional, sometimes if I access that too much, I can't finish the song.

Regret leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity.