Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

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.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PAGE: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but I’ll still love you.

Nothing was permanent. . . Nothing will be permanent. . . Nothing is permanent. . .~Ramy(n)

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

True friends stab you in the front.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.