Stella Adler Quotes

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

Logic won't change an emotion but action will.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Feelings follow actions. If I'm feeling low, I deliberately act cheery, and I find myself actually feeling happier. If I'm feeling angry at someone, I do something thoughtful for her and my feelings toward her soften. This strategy is uncannily effective.

If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

Lead with action and let the feelings follow.

Action often precedes the feeling.

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

Emotion is created by motion.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.

All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive things. You observe or are told something, you interpret it, and only then do you have a reaction at the feeling level. The point is that feeling is preceded by perception, and all of us are capable of controlling our interpretation [the associations and assumptions] of what we see. If we can control our interpretation, then it logically follows that we can exercise some control over our feelings as well.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.