Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

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.

They were strong singers, with swift minds and open good humor--arrogant enough to think they could stand on a stage and dogged enough to have done the work to get there.

I'll find my own way, when I was no longer able to survive. and when I knew that's where I can get up turning point

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

I think I feel much more at home in studio.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.