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“Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. Bad websites have horrible personalities and instill horrid emotional states in their users, usually unwittingly. We need to design things-products, websites, services-to convey whatever personality and emotions are desired.”

People Needs States Views Emotion Design Emotional Products Personality Intention Horrible Designer Users Signals Website Instill

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.”

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies

“At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mind Firsts States Emotion Comedy Emotional Skills Jokes Intention Starting Adjusting Writing Comedy

Author:Steve Martin

“An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.”

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Book:To Hell With Culture

Source: To Hell With Culture

“Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions.”

Emotion Awareness Intention

Book:The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

Source: The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

“It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.”

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Author:Orhan Pamuk