Noreena Hertz Quotes

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

You need to know that you cannot control your feelings, and you cannot control your feelings about your feelings, but, as best as you can, intellectually understand that your feelings are valid and they're okay and don't try to stifle them or feel shame about them.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

That's me, I'm emotional.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.