Quotes
Authors
Donald Calne

"Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason. Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions. Alarm bells for every business right there. The neurologist Donald Calne puts it brilliantly: â€œThe essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.â€"

-- Donald Calne

#Differences Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.”
“Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com
“All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.”
“Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.”
“Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere”
“Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people.”

Source : Paula Fox (2011). “News from the World: Stories and Essays”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company
“Power is nothing without a rock solid core. Pilates is the key to activating it...guys don't be fooled just 'cause women do it. It's no joke. Try it and you'll find out real quick.”
“Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.”

You may also like: