Lily Collins Quotes

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.

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

When you're being asked to think about the meaning of your intuitions before you act on them, maybe along the way you decide your intuitions are destructive or make no sense at all. And then you don't act on them.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

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

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

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

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

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

It's important not to think too much about what you do.

I'm not the type of person who feels bad about things before. I choose what to do at the moment, and I have a very good reason for it; otherwise, I don't do it. If later my feelings change, I should celebrate now by being more wise, not feel bad about before.

In anything you do, if you don't let your emotion take over you, you can make the better decisions.

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