Cognitive Appraisal Quotes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

What all emotions have in common, and what distinguishes them from bodily appetites, is a focus on an object and a view of that object as salient for one's life.

Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to understand what is an emotion, what is a feeling, we need to understand what is an emotion.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

Emotion operates, very often when you think about how you react to the world, you know, something is happening to you, you're simply going along and you're being confronted by different things, not necessarily very important or significance for your ultimate life, but you are constantly reacting to the world.

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.

More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Frustration is a function of our expectations.

The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.