Laurence Sterne Quotes

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

At the end of the day, I choose something that makes my heart beat, that I can relate to, that's very complex, or human.

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts.

The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.

The heart of change is in the emotions.

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head.

This is true even in organizations that are very focused on analysis and quantitative measurement, even among people who think of themselves as smart in an MBA sense. In highly successful change efforts, people find ways to help others see the problems or solutions in ways that influence emotions, not just thought.

But it is not reason that governs love.

I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.

Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story. And somehow, miraculously, a story that comes from deep in my heart calls from a reader that which is deepest in his or her heart, and together from our secret hidden selves we create a story that neither of us could have told alone.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings

I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.

I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.