Quotes About Emotions

the degree of awareness represents the difference. Rational people can readily admit their own irrational tendencies and the need to be vigilant. On the other hand, irrational people become highly emotional when challenged about the emotional roots of their decisions. They are incapable of introspection and learning. Their mistakes

the degree of awareness represents the difference. Rational people can readily admit their own irrational tendencies and the need to be vigilant. On the other hand, irrational people become highly emotional when challenged about the emotional roots of their decisions. They are incapable of introspection and learning. Their mistakes make them increasingly defensive.

A raiva é a reação emocional mais destrutiva, pois é a que mais turva sua visão. Também tem um efeito cascata que invariavelmente torna as situações menos controláveis e acentua a decisão do seu inimigo. Se você está tentando destruir um inimigo que o magoou, é bem melhor desarmá-lo fingindo amizade do que mostrando que está com raiva.

Going deeper into their Otherness, feeling what they feel, we can discover what makes them different and learn about human nature.

His approach in these cases was to imagine that each person, no matter how twisted, has a reason for what they've become, a logic that makes sense to them. In their own way, they are striving for fulfillment, but irrationally. By stepping back and imagining their story from the inside, Chekhov demythologized the brutes and aggressors; he cut them down to human size. They no longer elicited hatred but rather pity.

Los chinos tienen un proverbio: "Cuando el Yang está en su fase ascendente, el Yin nace", lo que traducido a nuestro lenguaje quiere decir que cuando un hombre ha dedicado lo mejor de su vida a los asuntos ordinarios de la sobrevivencia, el Yin o lado emocional de su naturaleza sale a la superficie y reclama sus derechos. Cuando ocurre este periodo, todo lo que antes parecía importante pierde su significación.

Return to the harder or softer sides of your character that you have lost or repressed.

Dado que las ideas de la gente tienden a girar en torno a sus preocupaciones e inseguridades diarias, no podrás proceder a seducirla hasta adormecer poco a poco sus ansiedades y llenar su distraída mente con ideas de ti.

friendship and love blind every man to their interests. Nobody believes a friend can betray.

Daily Law: Develop the habit of examining in depth your own emotional responses. You will end up slowly eliminating unnecessary reactions. The Laws of Human Nature, 1: Master Your Emotional Self—The Law of Irrationality

Los seductores prefieren seleccionar sus posibilidades. Tanto como sea posible, persiguen a gente que delata alguna vulnerabilidad a ellos, y evitan a la que no pueden emocionar. Dejar en paz a quienes son inaccesibles a ti es una senda sensata; no puedes seducir a todos. Por otra parte, busca activamente a la presa que reaccione de la manera correcta. Esto volverá mucho más placenteras y satisfactorias tus seducciones.

We don't say what we feel even when it would be appropriate, and we fail to set boundaries to people's harmful behavior. We find it hard to ask for a raise or a promotion or the respect due to us. Losing our bold spirit, a positive form of aggression, is losing a deep part of our self, and it is inevitably painful.

be aware of the Emotional Pitfalls—complacency, boredom, grandiosity, and the like—that continually threaten to derail or block our progress.

Recognize Your Aggressive Impulses

Daily Law: Look for signs of your own aggressive impulses in past actions—how they led to friction or success.

it is far easier to avoid creating envy in the first place than to get rid of it once it is there, ...

Emotions originate as physical arousal designed to capture our attention and cause us to take notice of something around us. They begin as chemical reactions and sensations that we must then translate into words to try to understand

In other words, we do not have conscious access to the origins of our emotions and the moods they generate. Once we feel them, all we can do is try to interpret the emotion, translate it into language.

For us, the split between our emotions and our cognition is a source of constant internal friction, comprising a second Emotional Self within us that operates beyond our will.

Animals feel fear for a brief time, then it is gone. We dwell on our fears, intensifying them and making them last well past the moment of danger, even to the point of feeling constant anxiety.

Progress and technology have not rewired us; they have merely altered the forms of our emotions and the type of irrationality that comes with them.

For instance, new forms of media have enhanced the age-old ability of politicians and others to play on our emotions, in ever subtler and more sophisticated ways. Advertisers bombard us with highly effective subliminal messages.

Pero la fuente primaria de la inteligencia humana es el desarrollo de las neuronas espejo (ver aquí), lo que nos concede la aptitud de ponernos en los zapatos de otro e imaginar su experiencia.

Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay.