Yakov Smirnoff Quotes

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

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.

My job is about emotion. My job is about feeling. This might be controversial to say, but I feel like sometimes data gets in the way of that.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

It's hard to put yourself in someone else's head.

However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words, thinking with our hearts, rather than our brains, is a surefire method to hurt those whom we wish to help.

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.