Joseph E. LeDoux famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.
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One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does this by generating explanations of behaviors on the basis of our self image, images, memories of the past, expectations of the future, the present social situation, and the physical environment in which behavior is produced.
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Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.
-- Joseph E. LeDoux
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A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
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I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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Behavior shapes emotions.
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So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.
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My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
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Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.
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