Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

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.

H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.

Yeah, my father is an egotistical douchebag, " he says roughly. "My name literally means Jonathan empire.

An ordinary intellect will, by industry and perseverance, often accomplish more than a much superior one, deficient in energy and the power of endurance.

We are always seeking it, never finding it.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest the butterflies the song of the birds if we can't see the stars at night.

'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.

I always gave it the best shot I had, whether it went my way or not that night.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.