T. Harv Eker Quotes

You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

First with the head, then with the heart.

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.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

People vote with their hearts, not their heads.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

People vote based on emotion. Period.

A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.

We make decisions based on what we feel in the moment.

I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.