Amishi Jha quotes

“Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.”
-- Amishi Jha

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“Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.”
-- Amishi Jha

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“If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger with you the rest of your life and lead to regret, remorse, and a whole cascade of psychological dysfunction.”
-- Amishi Jha

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“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”

“The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.”

“Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.”

“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.”

“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.”

“Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.”

“Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.”

“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”

“It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.”

Source : Ashley Montagu (1999). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, p.232, Rowman Altamira

“How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?”