Donald Calne Quotes

• The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

  Donald Calne

  Emotional, Differences, Fundraising

  Donald Calne (2010). “Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior”, p.253, Vintage

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• Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason. Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions. Alarm bells for every business right there. The neurologist Donald Calne puts it brilliantly: “The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.”

  Donald Calne

  Differences, Laughing, Decision

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• Reason leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to action.

  Donald Calne

  Action, Emotion, Reason

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