Sting Quotes

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

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

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.

I'm a normal person. I have emotions.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

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.

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

Real freedom must include economic security.

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

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not to allow ourselves to be carried by anger. We realize right away that that is fear. That is corruption.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.