Emotional Decision Quotes

If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

Irrational exuberance

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

Politics is irrational. Politics is about human beings with their frailties and perversions and distortions or perception, who prioritise things according to their conviction.

Reason is the slave of passion.

The most important organ in the body as far as the stock market is concerned is the guts, not the head. Anyone can acquire the know-how for analyzing stocks.

I'm an emotional person. I chose films based on emotions.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.

I don't have to be logical - I'm a mother.

Love is a choice you make everyday.

The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

It's human nature: for most investors, the pain of stocks going down is more tangible than the joy of when they go up. The common impulse is to do something - anything - to minimise the pain.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.