Erin O'Connor Quotes

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

I don't think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don't really know how to describe it... maybe I'll go with surly.

I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

I consider myself a little weak.

I feel like it's weird to list all my crap qualities.

I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.

Without our emotions, we can't make smart decisions.

Intelligent decisions may fail you but one's instincts cannot.

When people compliment me, I don't put much meaning into them, but when they say bad things, I take them too seriously. I try to fix this mentality, but it's hard.

It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.

I've got so many weaknesses.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

I wonder why I keep playing such intelligent people?

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.