Emotional Quotes

“Deep within our brains, as in theirs, our shadowy unconscious mind is continuously applying the lessons of our past experience to predict the consequences of our current circumstances. In fact, one way to characterize a brain is as a prediction machine.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Empowering emotions help you discover the lessons of every situation and move toward your goals. Disempowering interpretations tie you to negativity and get in the way of your goals. Reappraisal involves recognizing the negative pattern developing in your thoughts and changing it to one that is more desirable, but in a manner that is still based in reality.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“With regard to both the physical and the social world, one of the main lessons of neuroscience is that our perception of reality is something we actively construct, not a passive documentation of objective events.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Though it might seem that our feelings should be obvious to us, we’ve probably all at times discovered that we had been ignorant of what we were really feeling or why. Clarity about our unconscious emotion states, our conscious feelings, and the role of our more general life circumstances is the first step toward harnessing emotions in our service, or at least preventing them from working against us. The goal, for a happier and more successful existence, is to use that self-knowledge to increase your emotional intelligence.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“States of positive emotion, Fredrickson observed, generally have the effect of encouraging a certain amount of risk.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Whatever its other purposes, positive emotion is strongly correlated with good health and a longer life expectancy.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Research shows that happy people are more creative, open to new information, and flexible and efficient in their thinking.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“hunger drives acquisition,”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“field studies show that physical hunger increases the intention to obtain not only food but also nonfood objects.[”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“analytical thinking must be blended with emotion to be successful,”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“The goal of mastering your core affect is best achieved by monitoring it, which will enable you to recognize how being cold or tired or hungry or hurting might be having an impact on you and how the same conditions might also be affecting those you interact with.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“keep in mind that our interactions and decisions—and those of the people with whom we are interacting—are all greatly influenced by core affect.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Once we understand the importance of core affect and learn how to become aware of it by checking our core affect “temperature,” we can act consciously and proactively to regulate and transform it and to understand its effect on our feelings and behavior.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“It is surprising, given how powerful the influence of core affect is, how often we are not consciously aware of it.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“As a conscious experience, psychologists describe valence as the degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness you feel at a given time.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“What the Stoics believed was that you should not be psychologically enslaved to your emotions: don’t be manipulated by them, be actively in command.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Stoic philosophy warns us not to be overly tied to creature comforts, not to be addicted to our wealth, or anything material, but it doesn’t demonize those things.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Barrett argued that science, so far, has not identified truly objective criteria to reliably determine whether a person or an animal is in one emotional state or another.[”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“For example, it helps to make a conscious effort to focus at least once or twice each day on aspects of our lives that are going well or that we are grateful for. It’s also helpful to think of situations”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“In connecting our mental state to that of our bodies, core affect shapes our fundamental experience in the world and is thought to be one of the building blocks of our emotion.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Thinking in an anxious state, scientists have found, leads to a pessimistic cognitive bias; when an anxious brain processes ambiguous information, it tends to choose the more pessimistic from among the likely interpretations.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Acceptance is the heart of the stoic approach: you can lessen emotional pain if you accept that the “worst” may happen and focus only on what you can do to respond”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“talepte bulunan kişi ne kadar açık veya yetersiz olduğu fark etmeksizin bir sebep sunduğunda, rutin taleplerin kabul edilmesi daha olasıdır.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“kendini bilmek hem kabullenme hem değişim için ilk adımdır”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“gölgeli bilinçdışı zihnimiz mevcut durumlarımızın sonuçları üzerine tahmin yürütmek için sürekli olarak geçmiş deneyimlerimizin derslerini mevcut koşullara uyarlar”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Thinking in an anxious state, scientists have found, leads to a pessimistic cognitive bias; when an anxious brain processes ambiguous information, it tends to choose the more pessimistic from among the likely interpretations. Your brain becomes overactive in perceiving threats and tends to predict dire outcomes when faced with uncertainty. It’s easy to understand why brains might be designed that way; being in a punishing environment, one would be wise to interpret ambiguous data as being more threatening, or less desirable, than one might if the surroundings were safe and pleasant.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“The Emotion Revolution Before the current burst of research into emotion, most scientists understood our feelings within a framework that goes all the way back to the ideas of Charles Darwin. That traditional theory of emotion embraced a number of principles that seem intuitively plausible: that there is a small set of basic emotions—fear, anger, sadness, disgust, happiness, and surprise—that are universal among all cultures and have no functional overlap; that each emotion is triggered by specific stimuli in the external world; that each emotion causes fixed and specific behaviors; and that each emotion occurs in specific dedicated structures in the brain. This theory also encompassed a dichotomous view of the mind that goes back at least to the ancient Greeks: that the mind consists of two competing forces, one “cold,” logical, and rational and the other “hot,” passionate, and impulsive. For millennia these ideas informed thinking in fields from theology to philosophy to the science of the mind. Freud incorporated the traditional theory into his work. John Mayer and Peter Salovey’s theory of “emotional intelligence,” popularized by the 1995 book of that name by Daniel Goleman, is in part based on it. And it is the framework for most of what we think about our feelings. But it is wrong.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

“Research suggests that your happiness set point as well as circumstances and recent events accounts for much but not all of your happiness level. What about the rest? That’s due to our behavior, and the good news is, in contrast to the others, this factor is very much under our control.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: The New Thinking About Feelings

“Ever notice that when you lack sleep, things that seemed important before no longer seem to matter so much? Setting up and programming the coffeemaker so the coffee will be ready when I wake up the next day seems like a great idea at 9:00 p.m., but at 2:00 a.m.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: The New Thinking About Feelings

“Altering the course of how your brain makes sense of things is a way of short-circuiting the cycle that leads to an unwanted emotion. Psychologists call that guided thinking “reappraisal.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking