Go Suck a Lemon Quotes

“Emotion is a product of thinking and perception. We must think and perceive to feel emotion. If we want to change how we feel, we must change how we think” (Ellis, 2001).”
― Michael Cornwall, Go Suck a Lemon: Strategies for Improving Your Emotional Intelligence

“a truer accounting of ourselves must always include a reflection on our strongest and our weakest traits, our mediocrity and our brilliance, and then establishing some functional method for living comfortably with the sum total of that information.”
― Michael Cornwall, Go Suck a Lemon: Strategies for Improving Your Emotional Intelligence

“Removing the absolute demand from the statement (the should) and recognizing that people will behave any way they choose, even when we believe they shouldn’t, will result in some lesser degree of discomfort when we don’t get what we prefer, in place of what we demand.”
― Michael Cornwall, Go Suck a Lemon: Strategies for Improving Your Emotional Intelligence

“are capable of expressing boundless emotion, nearly all of which is intentional and nearly all of it drawn from the language of your mind. There is nothing natural about fearing failure, for example. People fail, and they respond to failure from the perspective they hold about failing. Likewise, there is no evidence for feeling guilt when you make a mistake. Your feelings about mistake–making are a product of your thinking. If”
― Michael Cornwall, Go Suck a Lemon: Strategies for Improving Your Emotional Intelligence