Bob Greene Quotes

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I'm almost completely ruled by my emotions.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

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

They say I have no emotions, but I'm excited even if you can't see it.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

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

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

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.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Many people don't know about the power of good feelings, and so their feelings are reactions or responses to what happens to them. They have put their feelings on automatic pilot, instead of deliberately taking charge of them.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

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

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