Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart.” Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I love a guy who knows who he is, can make me laugh, and challenges me intellectually.

It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.

You gotta learn how to think right before you can live right.

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions

I try my best to really think about things before I react and respond.

If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

To think things out properly and fairly, a fellow's got to be calm and old and toothless: When you're an old gaffer with no teeth, it's easy to say: 'Damn it, boys, you mustn't bite!' But, when you've got all thirty-two teeth.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

You don't have to believe everything you think.

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.