David Brooks Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

  David Brooks

  Brain, Mind, Desire

  "Beyond the Brain". Article by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. June 17, 2013.

• One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

  David Brooks

  World, Way, Emotion

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

• We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences.

  David Brooks

  Art, Emotional, Giving

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

• Emotion is the foundation of reason.

  David Brooks

  Foundation, Emotion, Reason

  "How politics neglects feelings". "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett, www.abc.net.au. May 8, 2011.

• I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.

  David Brooks

  Views, Talking, World

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, Emotions Tell Us What to Value". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

• Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

  David Brooks

  Gps, Littles, Way

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, Emotions Tell Us What to Value". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

• We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

  David Brooks

  Choices, Emotion, Educate

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

• I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.

  David Brooks

  Writing, Wife, Guy

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

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