“Social reality is not just about words—it gets under your skin. If you perceive the same baked good as a decadent 'cupcake' or a healthful 'muffin,' research suggests that your body metabolizes it differently. Likewise, the words and concepts of your culture help to shape your brain wiring and your…”— Lisa Feldman Barrett, amazon.com
“An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.”— Lisa Feldman Barrett, amazon.com
“Simulations are your brain’s guesses of what’s happening in the world. In every waking moment, you’re faced with ambiguous, noisy information from your eyes, ears, nose, and other sensory organs. Your brain uses your past experiences to construct a hypothesis—the simulation—and compares it to the ca…”— Lisa Feldman Barrett, amazon.com
“The word 'smile' doesn’t even exist in Latin or Ancient Greek. Smiling was an invention of the Middle Ages, and broad, toothy-mouthed smiles (with crinkling at the eyes, named the Duchenne smile by Ekman) became popular only in the eighteenth century as dentistry became more accessible and affordabl…”— Lisa Feldman Barrett, amazon.com
“Numerous experiments showed that people feel depressed when they fail to live up to their own ideals, but when they fall short of a standard set by others, they feel anxious.”— Lisa Feldman Barrett, amazon.com
“Serial killers do on a small scale what governments do on a large one. They are a product of the times and these are bloodthirsty times. Even psychopaths have emotions if you dig deep enough, but then again maybe they don’t.”— Richard Ramirez, youtube.com
“Processing trauma doesn’t feel good but it does good. Procrastinating feels good but it doesn’t do good. If you let feelings totally control your actions, you will never progress.”— Brianna Wiest, forbes.com
“People who are controlled by their emotions typically have something in common: they tend to only do what feels most comfortable. In other words, their emotions are organized into feels good and feels bad, not feels good or does good.”— Brianna Wiest, forbes.com
“One of my main jobs is to take out the drama a little bit. You can't let the emotions get too close to you, especially those that come from outside the team.”— Oliver Bierhoff, espn.com
“He wished to be alone with his own thoughts for awhile — to try and resolve the meaning of this strange new emotion that possessed him, — a feeling that was half-pleasing, half-painful, and that certainly moved him to a sort of shame.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I have a great deal of respect for the animals that I kill, and I feel remorse and all of the emotions that come with it. The thing inside me that drives me to go out and hunt is very animal. But the remorse, emotion and respect I feel, and the closeness to God that I feel when I’m out there, is my…”— Chris Pratt, theguardian.com
“Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com
“Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist.”— Jerry Sohl, D. C. Fontana, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com
“May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.”— Jerome Bixby, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com
“We all mask certain emotions, often our most intense ones, like Bjorn Borg did. But like Borg, eventually, it'll end up costing you everything.”— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com
“I know I should have gone to the pound for a pet, but instead I bought one. It just happened. I saw him and I fell in love with him and I bought him, so there my emotions made me abandon my style.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“We don’t put enough emphasis on emotional intelligence and it’s left people unable to figure out how to handle their own.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“Read more books, I guess, is what I’m trying to say. Read stories about other people, other emotions. Get emotions that you can’t get from daily life just now.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“The next time you cry, imagime that a tiny piece of the ocean is behind ur eyes & is just tryimg to find its way back to the sea.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com