Arousal Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

— Walker Evans

Sometimes when emotions are aroused, we find the path we've been searching for

— Anonymous

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

— W. Clement Stone

Emotion is energy in motion.

— Peter McWilliams

It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.

— Wilhelm Reich

Emotions aren't just mindless urges; they contain thoughts about matters of importance.

— Martha Nussbaum

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

— Chin-Ning Chu

“It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of…

— Alain de Botton

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

— William Hazlitt

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other…

— Matthew Simpson

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

— Phyllis A. Whitney

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

— William James