Best emotional & rational Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.”

“The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.”

People Decision Interesting Emotional Authority Rational Movie Business

Author:Bill Forsyth

“Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.”

Thinking Way Feelings Order Our Lives Journey Emotional Higher Benefits Mark Rational One Way Territory Uncharted Uncharted Territory

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything in terms of polarities - two ends of the same continuum. Young/old, male/female, individuality/conformity, work/play, freedom/constraint, right/left, day/night, life/death, rational/emotional, and so on.”

“Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.”

Knows Doe Matter Choices Emotion Emotional Products Connections Loyalty Rational Brands Consumers Marketers Emotional Connection Rational Thought Brand Loyalty

Author:Mark McKinnon

“The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is "Why should I?" And he may ask it more than once... The product and its communication stream must continue to provide him with both rational and emotional answers.”

Should May Asks Answers Dangerous Emotional Products Communication Customers Rational Streams Should I

Author:Lester Wunderman

“Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.”

People Knows Made Stories Individual Powerful Brain Emotional Argument Connections Scientist Rational Storytelling Journalist Discovering Portal

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.”

Emotional Understood Sick Response Rational Distress Sick Society

Book:Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane

Source: Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane

“An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.”

Spiritual Emotional Exercise Activity Majors Rational Ideology Prose Logical Ritual Aphorism Mixtures Antipathy Prose And Poetry

Author:William C. Brown

“When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses.”

Years Sometimes Pain Emotional Months Limits Prison Sentences Rational Minors Tickets Traffic Offense Emotional Pain

Author:David D. Burns

“I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.”

Facts Decision Emotion Emotional Investment Investing Rational Decision Making

Author:Bill Ackman

“Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.”

Men Heart Feelings Animal Emotional Rational Deceived

Book:The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny

Source: The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny

“I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.”

Believe Ideas Speak I Believe Doubt Emotional Reader Rational Essays Be Confident Invoke Underrated Personal Essays Great Freedom

Author:Marty Nemko

“I started to call myself a "rational therapist" in January 1955; later I used the term "rational emotive." Now I call myself a "rational emotive behavior therapist." But from the start, I always included philosophic techniques as well as experiential, emotional and behavioral techniques.”

Wells Used Term Emotional Behavior Technique Rational Therapists January Philosophic

Author:Albert Ellis

“There is a lot of new research about how stress hormones affect your body and how you can work on giving your body as much of the good hormones as possible, because that heals your body. I am quite a rational person - so when someone could show me that there was a rational way of seeing fear in terms of stress hormones, it was easier for me to understand. I think all autoimmune diseases are very sensitive to stress. It is typical that the flares come after a period of emotional stress. The connection is quite clear.”

Thinking Giving Term Emotional Stress Heal Rational Sensitive Show Me

Author:Ane Brun

“If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?”

Ifs Men Way Long Levels Emotional Months Men And Women Female Feminist Rational Supposed To Be Behave Cycles Logical Lowest Hormones

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.”

Feels Hard Easy Party Emotional Baby Republican Authority Yeah Democrat Rational Feel Good Yearning Novelty Mama Respectful Herds Idealistic

Author:James Wolcott

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

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