Quotes About Emotions

Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal." From The Biology of Success.

The idea of potential loss plays a large role in human decision making. In fact, people seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value.

people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.79

There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news.

There's an implication for influence: persuaders would be wise to match the System 1 versus 2 orientation of any appeal to the corresponding orientation of the recipient. Thus, if you are considering a car purchase primarily from the standpoint of its emotionally relevant features (attractive looks and exhilarating acceleration), a salesperson would be well advised to convince you by using feelings-related arguments.

Anything too stupid to be spoken," he asserted, "is sung.

The time to react protectively is when we feel ourselves liking the practitioner more than we should under the circumstances.

this would involve moving incrementally from the negative state to another state which is only somewhat negative; confusion, for example. From the somewhat negative state, a small but significant step can be made to a state that is slightly positive; let's say curiosity about what might happen next. It is then relatively simple to take a step from the somewhat positive state to the desired state of motivation.

By words one of us can give another the greatest happiness or bring about utter despair; by words the teacher imparts his knowledge to the student; by words the orator sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth emotions and are universally the means by which we influence our fellow-creatures.

I say nothing against friendship, for I have tasted the sweets of it, and I know nothing of love, having never myself experienced a touch of it, but I find that in the making of poetry love is the most useful of all the themes that a poet may play upon.

Of all things in this world love is the most unmanageable. Parents and guardians are sadly foiled when they undertake to guide and coerce it: and the best thing they can do with it is to leave it to itself.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.