Emotional Influence Quotes

You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our adversaries who have practised upon it with no small benefit to their cause. For at the very moment they are eulogizing the reason of men & professing to appeal only to that faculty, they are courting the strongest & most active passion of the human heart - VANITY!

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Fashion has always been important to me. I think style is important and what I love about my style is it's all based on my mood.

Politics is irrational. Politics is about human beings with their frailties and perversions and distortions or perception, who prioritise things according to their conviction.

Nothing is more fallacious than to expect to produce any valuable or permanent results in political projects by relying merely on the reason of men. Men are ... for the most part governed by the impulses of passion.

Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

I'm an emotional person. I chose films based on emotions.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

Hearts and Minds

When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.

The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.

The stock market is people.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

I wing my style. I think it's definitely something on how you feel, the weather, that plays a part.

He that is warme, thinkes all so.