Phyllis Bottome Quotes

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

Guys are much happier when someone puts a limit on their behavior and causes them to make a real connection with another person.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

Emotional information is very, very rich in influence. You're giving somebody something to connect with, to see themselves in.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.

Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.

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

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

Once you've said it, you can't put it back. So choose your words carefully in heated moments in personal relationships. Anything you say, people have feelings. If you're thinking something, you keep thinking it and it just sort of slides out, it's gonna happen.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

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

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

It's very hard to get the dynamics where two people can stimulate each other and be happy.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

My passion in life isn't politics. It truly is connecting to people and women.