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Feelings Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment,…
- Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those…
- Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
- Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for…
- I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be…
- 'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for…
- Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives…
- The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by…
- Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or ridicule, all they…
- People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible…
- If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a…
- As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings…
- If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
- My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
- We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
- Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen…
- Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
- Listen with your eyes for feelings.
More Feelings Quotes
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt
- When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have… — Lauren Bacall
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall
- The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs