Quotes About Emotion

First, there's what we called the emotional side. It's the part of you that is instinctive, that feels pain and pleasure. Second, there's the rational side, also known as the reflective or conscious system. It's the part of you that deliberates and analyzes and looks into the future. In the past

Loewenstein argues that gaps cause pain.

people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

The linkages between emotion and behavior can be more subtle, though. For instance, a secondary effect of being angry, which was recently discovered by researchers, is that we become more certain of our judgments. When we're angry, we know we're right, as anyone who has been in a relationship can attest.

we've seen that a credible idea makes people believe. An emotional idea makes people care. And in this chapter we'll see that the right stories make people act.

Our three-ring binders won't change a thing. But a little humor and humanity might. December

That's what sticky ideas do – they make people feel something. Change comes from feeling, not facts. Not

Once you break through to feeling, though, things change.

researchers have found again and again that people act as though losses are from two to four times more painful than gains are pleasurable.

In the last few chapters, we've seen that a credible idea makes people believe. An emotional idea makes people care. And in this chapter we'll see that the right stories make people act.

That's what sticky ideas do—they make people feel something. Change comes from feeling, not facts.

Kotter and Cohen observed that, in almost all successful change efforts, the sequence of change is not ANALYZE-THINK-CHANGE, but rather SEE-FEEL-CHANGE.

a Simple Unexpected Concrete Credentialed Emotional Story. A clever observer will note that this sentence can be compacted into the acronym SUCCESs. This

SMART goals presume the emotion; they don't generate it. In looking for a goal that reaches the Elephant—that hits people in the gut—you can't bank on SMART goals.

Kotter and Cohen observed that, in almost all successful change efforts, the sequence of change is not ANALYZE-THINK-CHANGE, but rather SEE-FEEL-CHANGE. You

change rarely happens unless it's motivated by feeling

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.

People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.

If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.

Love. There's no argument, no matter how strong, that can overcome that word.

Hope not built on reason brings disappointment only.

Each desire in the world is different, as is each love.

It didn't drain me as I thought it might. Instead, it invigorated me. Such was love's magic—the giver gained more than the receiver.

his love was totally different from every other love in my life. Unlike them, it didn't expect me to behave in a certain way. It didn't change into displeasure or anger or even hatred if I didn't comply. It healed me.