emotions

"It seems such a pity," he often said, with his pensively humorous smile, "to limit the scope of one's emotions -- _borner la carriere a ses emotions_!"

The Crown of Life George Gissing 1880

To have someone speak to their lizardbrain emotions is what they crave.

Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand? 2010

Dr. Frankel says that finding new ways to express my emotions is an important part of my recovery.

Quiet Play « A Fly in Amber 2008

The day when you are ready for men to express their emotions is the day you will see that we have them.

Scripting News for 8/12/2006 « Scripting News Annex 2006

Skinner, for instance, was grossly misleading when he claimed that what we call emotions are names for classifying behavior with respect to various circum - stances which affect the probability of the behavior's occurrence; for the circumstances are those which are interpreted by the subject in a certain light, e.g., as dangerous in the case of fear, as involving somebody else having something which we want in the case of envy.

BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

My favorite passage on emotions is in the chapter on self-deception (p. 116):

Tyler Cowen Practices Reverse Psychiatry, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Now to just pick 3 books and actually talk about emotions is a tough one for me hehe

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Win a SONY Reader. It’s as easy as sharing your emotions. 2009

Instead, the problem with piling allegedly platonic relationships on to a table already heaving with an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of modern emotions is that (and I shall see this metaphor through to the end if it kills me) a plateful of delicious herring smorgas is very likely to end up all over the floor.

Can you be just good friends? Kathryn Flett 2010

There was no way I could have worked as a lawyer and still write – especially a book like The Gift of Rain, where I had to feel, to immerse myself in emotions and mood.

Twan Eng Tan - An interview with author 2010

“Discussing emotions is always tricky for people,” Josh Bernstein had said at the conference.

Exile in Greenville 2010