Praise • Endorsements

What Thought Leaders, Experts, and Readers Are Saying About Choosing Emotions

Endorsements

Physicians, Therapists, CEOs, Emmy-winning filmmakers, judges, and elite athletes on Choosing Emotions.


It is really good. It’s a book I can enjoy not only as an overall book to read at a sitting, but one I can pick up when I have an emotional emergency.

Hon. Susan Patterson, JD, MBA, SVRA Champion and 2016 Rookie of the Year, Magistrate Judge

This is a world-class conversation starter, and it is one of the most helpful references for writers and public speakers ever put together.

Bradford T. Lefton, Esq., Seattle

If you find that brilliant emotional quotes and street phrases help you connect and resonate with your clients, patients, and audience, here is your gold mine.

Dr. Peter Lindquist, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, and Healthcare CEO, Nashville

Choosing Emotions is a great resource for finding how the greatest minds in history have approached and handled emotional problems in their lives.

Joseph J. Hessel, MD, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Phoenix

I love the manuscript. I keep it nearby.

Nick Christensen, Father, Husband, Commercial Real Estate Executive, and Former #1-ranked U.S. Amateur Surfer, Manhattan Beach

Fun and provocative. Ten minutes spent with this book will change your life for the better. I think you will also find it is a platform for serious introspection.

H. Hill McAlister, Former President of the Rotary Club of Nashville, and Former President of the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America

Choosing Emotions is a go-to resource, providing expert emotional quotes and backstories, plus powerful ‘street’ usages to help connect better with your audience in any paper, talk, or presentation. You’ll be really moved by the book’s precise and powerful life insights.

David Gow, Chairman, Gow Media, Inc.; CEO, The Center for Houston’s Future

Choosing Emotions is a modern sacred masterpiece. This book is a tool that will transform the heart of every reader. I call it my Emotional Bible.

Jan Goss, Executive Consultant, Speaker, and #1 Best-Selling Author, Austin; Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award (2025)

One of the best guests I’ve ever interviewed.

“Doc Michelle” Cohen, PhD, host of LA Talk Radio’s “Live on the Couch”

Choosing Emotions is a fun and welcome resource for knowing ourselves more deeply and a pathway to wisdom. The more we can define and understand emotions the closer we come to wisdom. With deep research and zinger quotes, D. Earl Johnston gives us those definitions and a deep well of wise sayings.

Lois Farfel Stark, Emmy-awarded global documentary filmmaker with NBC News and multiple award-winning author of The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times

D. Earl Johnston has brilliantly and methodically gathered thousands of timely quotes from a wide variety of authors, spanning centuries, to help all of us navigate these difficult days in which we find ourselves. This outstanding book of helpful quotes will benefit us when we simply need some encouraging words to lift our spirits or assist us in facing a challenge.

Sayres Dudley, Dudley & Associates, Dallas

Moving beyond mere dictionary definitions of emotions to how many of the world’s greatest minds have actually lived them out, Choosing Emotions adds both depth and richness to how we can improve our lives. From Bullying to Bravery, from Calm to Charisma, from Fear to Friendship, and from Parenting to Prayer, this book delivers.

J. Pittman McGehee, DD, Episcopal priest and Jungian analyst, Austin, Texas; author of The Invisible Church, Raising Lazarus, Words Made Flesh, The Paradox of Love, and Growing Down

Emotions can be toxic, particularly in our current fractured world. They can also be glorious. By using famous quotes along with ‘street’ phrases from the heart, Choosing Emotions has created an innovative new ‘Emotionary.’ It’s fun too and sets a breakthrough standard for explaining emotions. As a frequent speaker, I find it to be a guideline for successful communication with whatever audience I’m addressing. It’s a must read.

The Honorable Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., CEO, National Monuments Foundation; President, Millennium Gate Museum; President, Shin Dae-yong Global Peace Institute; Former United States Commissioner of Fine Arts; Atlanta, Seoul, Washington
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A first-of-its kind reference on 272 emotional conditions. Find it, get oriented in minutes, and move forward with expert insights and quotes from the world’s great minds and masters.

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