“What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.” ThinkingMatterRealityLastsEmotionForeverProudIllusionMirrorsAnalysisParksGrayStomachSignalsAmusementTransmitGlandsAmusement ParksGray Matter Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.” IfsEmotionTearsValuableReleaseIdleSignalsSuccessionMiscellaneous Author:Raymond Williams
“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.” PeopleNeedsStatesViewsEmotionDesignEmotionalProductsPersonalityIntentionHorribleDesignerUsersSignalsWebsiteInstill Author:Donald A. Norman
“The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced by arcane formulae, computer programs or signals flashed by the price behavior of stocks and markets. Rather an investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.” DifferentStoriesValuesAbilityEmotionOpinionAdviceSucceedBehaviorJudgmentComputerProgramInvestmentConsumersInvestorsSignalsMarketplaceContagiousGood BusinessSwirlsArcaneInvestment SuccessCoupling Author:Warren Buffett
“New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.” ShowsEmotionEmotionalResearchConsciousNervesAllowingSignalsPathways Author:Robert E. Ornstein
“We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.” CountryAmericaSufferingLinesResultsEmotionPovertyTerribleToughTraditionDebateOpennessCitizenshipAvoidingDiscourseSignalsCivicsMindlessNervousnessTough Things Author:Geneva Overholser
“The emotions you once thought of as negative are merely a call to action. In fact, instead of calling them negative emotions... let's call them Action Signals.” ActionEmotionNegativeSignalsNegative Emotions Author:Tony Robbins
“Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow. Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I'd dealt with my parents' death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger. After that movie I said, "Y'know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That's gotta be as real as it gets. It's not just dialogue anymore."” KnowsWayFirstsMadeSaidRealJobsGrowsFeltParentRealizingChallengesLossActingEmotionSadnessGrewDevelopmentGrew UpFirst TimePersonal DevelopmentDialogueSmokeSignalsSadness And AngerSmoke Signals Author:Adam Beach