“And yet humanity is so not evolved that how can you expect anything absolutely major to happen? Look how long, we move ahead in technology, how much do we move ahead in morality or emotion? We move ahead so minimally, minimally, minimally.” LooksLongHappensMovingHumanityEmotionTechnologyMoralityMajorsMoving Ahead Author:Lily Tomlin
“As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.” FeelingsProblemEmotionSeeingTreeMajorsForestsReplacedFeelings And EmotionsMajor ProblemsAmerican Education Author:Walter E. Williams
“I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.” FeelsCertainLostAbilityDecisionEmotionStudyCircumstancesMajorsPatientEmote Author:Antonio Damasio
“A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.” IfsMindEyeLeftEmotionSpeechMajorsEarsOccasionsExecutionFascinationImmuneHorrific Author:Michael Foot
“Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech.” SelfIndividualEmotionSpeechMajorsSettingSettingsMasteryListenersTheatricalDealingsSelf ConfidentDiffidence Book:Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris Source: Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris
“The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.” DoeEmotionPersonalityMajorsNewsPsychologicalAntidoteSetbackBad NewsResilientBouncePositive Emotions Author:Nick Baylis
“A sociopath can imitate emotions, where a psychopath really doesn't have that capacity. They can't fool people into thinking anything and they're usually lacking major empathy for anybody besides themselves.” PeopleThinkingEmotionFoolMajorsEmpathyCapacityLackingPsychopathSociopath Author:Patrick Heusinger
“Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body's major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It's the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion.” DifferentSelfBodyJoyEmotionBrainCompassionInformationMajorsYogaDown AndYour BodyCarrieNervesOrgansRegulationLike LoveSelf Regulation Author:Deepak Chopra
“I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?” NeedsEmotionMajorsTragedySouthComplexesHandleMinorsChordsSophistication Author:Joni Mitchell
“All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms.” PeopleWorldWayPastFormEmotionInfluenceMajorsAncientSexualityExpectedFamiliarAttractiveParksThemeDesperateTrendsMuseumsDisappointedEgyptPackagesRenaissancePersonal RelationshipsAncient EgyptTheme Parks Author:J. G. Ballard