It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

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.

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking.

Might without right makes blight

Nobody can learn for another. Only we can teach ourselves.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

You can't just replace someone with a regular-looking guy who didn't say any of the lines.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.