Patrick Dixon Quotes

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

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.

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

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

The way my brain works, it created me thirsty. From the off, I was a sponge for information that had emotional connotations, I think that was it. I was brought up to see the world as emotional, and anything that I could get my hands on that helped me explore that emotional stuff, I was fascinated by.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

The emotion, and the other aspect is that this relate to many different obstacle in life. Emotion, yes, I love emotion, for your information, very much so.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

You can't heal what you can't feel!

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.