Jim Rohn Quotes

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

I deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.

I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted.

I can access emotions very easily.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

My strength is that I'm an empath.