Alva Noto Quotes

Because I think I am pretty left-brained - more than I gave myself credit for - I think I've managed to really dissect emotions. At least my own. And I've been able to understand what they do, how they do it, and when.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

My heroes were always a combination of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock. You have to be ruled by logic, but if you're only ruled by logic and you don't touch your emotions, you will make the wrong instinctive call.

I've always been able to put things in perspective.

Find a balance between head and heart.

It's not good to be lit all the time and have no clear-headed thoughts.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.