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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach. -- Karen DeCrow
Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth. -- Gary Chapman
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few. -- Adolf Hitler
Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions. -- Nicole Kidman
One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control. -- Demi Lovato
There's no reason to do 'ex and the City' if it's not going to be everything 'Sex and the City' is, which is vibrant emotions, comedy, drama... and also, style. -- Michael Patrick King
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason. -- Saint Basil
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action. -- Daniel Kahneman
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. -- Edward Levi
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking. -- Julian Baggini
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions. -- Simon Sinek
Naturally, women are drawn to a man who understands the subtlety of emotions, and they know I'm a passionate man. But the reason I try to keep myself in shape is so I can sing better, not to look good. -- Andrea Bocelli
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. -- Larry Elder
The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs. -- Frans de Waal
My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice. -- Oksana Baiul
There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself. -- Kate Dickie
In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine. -- Chet Faker
I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog Orson died, I did this very male thing of 'It's just a dog and I'll just move on.' I was very slow to grasp the emotion. But Orson is the reason I started writing about dogs. -- Jon Katz
I can feel things - tap into emotions. When I meet a new person, I know their life straight away. I suppose you could call it a special intuition, but it's my number one quality, and I'm always 99.9 percent right. If I don't like someone, it always turns out to be for a good reason. -- Suzi Quatro
While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write. -- Helen Garner
Reason is emotion for the sexless. -- Heathcote Williams
Emotion is the foundation of reason. -- David Brooks
Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion. -- Richard Bach
When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow. -- Barbara Mertz
Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action. -- Donald Calne
The subconscious is motivated by emotion, not reason. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion. -- Frank Herbert
Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history. -- Beryl Smalley
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason -- Gelett Burgess
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion. -- Baruch Spinoza
Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. -- Nalini Singh
Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it. -- Dennis Lindley
But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them. -- Richard M. Nixon
The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. -- Donald Calne
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking. -- Les Greenberg
We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion. -- John Dewey
Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason. -- Eric Cantona
In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable. -- Cyril Connolly
Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion. -- Cardinal Richelieu
We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen. -- Kim Campbell
The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion. -- Stephen Kinzer
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied -- Cyril Connolly
If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating. -- Guillermo del Toro
Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can become very angry for no reason. That's not just an emotion. That's a demon. -- Stephen Baldwin
Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices. -- Drayton Bird

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