Emotional Reasoning Quotes

#1. This is a dynamic particular to encounters with male drivers, who seem to grow all the more indignant the more completely they are in the wrong. I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it that, is transitive: You make me feel bad; feeling mad makes me mad; ergo, you make me mad.

Lionel Shriver

#2. Teenage girls engage in emotional reasoning, which is the belief that if you feel something is true, it must be true. If a teenager feels like a nerd, she is a nerd ... There is a limited ability to sort facts from feelings. Thinking is still magical in the sense that thinking something makes it so.

Mary Pipher

#3. Even a trashy movie can make you cry. There were deep emotional reactions that ducked the censure of the higher reasoning processes and forced us to enact, however vestigially, our roles - me, the indignant secret lover revealed; Clarissa the woman cruelly betrayed.

Ian McEwan

#4. I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

Tom Colicchio

#5. Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

Russell Simmons

#6. It is impossible to do anything of significance in this world if you are not ready to enjoy success

Sunday Adelaja

#7. You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#8. That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

#9. When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Bertrand Russell

#10. To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#11. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

John Locke

#12. Fighting fear is a full-time job.

Darius Foroux

#13. The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.

David Michod

#14. Tell me to sod off and off I will duly sod." "What girl could resist? Sod off." I

David Mitchell

#15. Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#16. Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas are overlapping and interacting as well, the emotional, intuitive, animal areas.

Michael Longley

#17. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. If you fail to know how to move with people without emotional discipline, you shall surely become the color of their emotions whenever they go beyond the boundaries of their emotions to display the real and true color of their emotions

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Jonathan Haidt

#20. The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

#21. Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to.

Pat Martin