For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.

Every season has a reason

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come you have to get up and make them.

Had I been chosen president again I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Barrabas came to us by the sea.

You have to have a vision and know that it's worth seeing it through. Other than that, just be true to your heart.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.