“Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional strength. But we have all been given the same ability to be faithful.” EnergyGivenAbilityTalentEmotionalCommitmentBlessedIntellectFaithfulBoundlessBeing FaithfulPhysical BeautyEmotional Strength Book:Weatherproof Your Heart Source: Weatherproof Your Heart
“What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.” AbilityBrainPlayerEmotionalGolfEquilibriumBrain Power Author:Arnold Palmer
“I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.” ThinkingFirstsHumansChildrenSocialWealthAbilityRaceResponsibilityStepsPlansEmotionalKeysSurvivalIntellectualToolsOur ChildrenMajorityHuman RaceCollectivesFirst StepsImprovingStorytellerEducatorCommunicators Author:George Lucas
“If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.” IfsSelfMatterHandsAbleAbilityEmotionAwarenessEmotionalSmartEmpathySelf AwarenessIntelligenceManageEmotional IntelligenceDistressingNo Empathy Author:Daniel Goleman
“Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.” Has BeensAbilityMeditationEmotionalImpulseMeditation And YogaYoga MeditationMeditation Mindfulness Author:Daniel Goleman
“Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.” AbilityEmotionalUnderstoodPoetry IsGood Poetry Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.” NeedsFeelingsAbilityEmotionTalkingTeacherTeachingEmotionalSkillsComfortableIncludingLiteracyEmotional Literacy Author:Daniel Goleman
“School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children.” NeedsKindChildrenSelfFactsHelpingAbleSchoolTurnsSocialWaitingAbilityKnowingTeacherEmotionalBehaviorExpectedImpulseFundAssuredReinsGetting AlongPrecocious Author:Daniel Goleman
“Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.” PeopleWantNeedsGivingChildrenEnergyParentBornAbilityEmotionalDemandNormalSpringBrilliantAll TimeMiserableRight ThingVaryReservedLonerEmotional Energy Author:Stella Chess
“A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.” WorldChildrenPlayFeelingsSchoolSocialEnjoyAbilityDealsFocusGroupsEmotionalAdultsCompetitionComplexesDisappointmentIntimacyNeighborhoodNew WorldPeersWorkplaceSocial RelationshipsPeer GroupComplex Relationships Author:Stanley Greenspan
“The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.” PeopleFeelsHumansHeartMeanFeelingsFormCoursesAbilityCompassionKindnessEmotionalEmpathyFellowsRelatedFacultyGoodwillOpen HeartLamaDalai Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I love my girlfriend, don't get me wrong. I truly love this woman, but I have the ability to have sex without any emotional involvement. It's a gift.” HumorFunnySexAbilityEmotionalGirlfriendInvolvementMy Girlfriend Author:Adam Ferrara
“First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.” WayFirstsAbilityEmotionalConversationTasksIncrediblesAssetsOne TimeMultipleSensitivityDocumentariesIntimidatingBeing A Woman Author:Ondi Timoner
“The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.” PeopleGivingRealityEnergyAbilityDealsCreativeEmotionalAnxietyCapacityDirectSatisfactionRelateMaturityTensionConsistentMutualRelativeReceivingSymptomsHostileOutletsCriteriaConstructiveCapacity To LoveHelpfulnessEmotional Maturity Author:William C. Menninger
“Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.” PeopleKnowsOrderLosesAbilityDecisionEmotionCuttingEmotionalDisciplineExerciseWeightMajorityInvestmentFatsDespiteAnalogiesDietingLose WeightUnsuccessful Author:Victor Sperandeo
“Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.” IfsWorldShouldLooksMeanSaidHardSocialCan DoAbilityEmotionalIntellectualShould HaveOptimismIntellectCombinationChanging The WorldBad ThingsPessimismYou Can Do ItReformersAbility To SeeAntonio Author:Andrew Solomon
“There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation.” PeopleAbilityRoomsVisionFireGraceEmotionalInspireIntegrityElementsSixCriticalAuthenticityReputationFakeEmotional IntelligenceInspire OthersDecisivenessStellarGravitas Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett
“I always tell people, "There's a book on everyone." I get some of that book before I do anything. If I want to deeply understand someone's reputation, I'll talk to their friends, their former bosses, their peers, and I'll learn a lot about them. I want them to be trusted. I want them to be respected. I want them to give a s - -. Then there are the intangibles: physical and emotional stamina, the ability to confront issues. I can ask all I want about those things, but I also have to see a lot of it.” PeopleIfsWantGivingI CanBookAsksAbilityIssuesEmotionalReputationFormerBossTrustedPeersStamina Author:Jamie Dimon
“Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.” HelpingProblemDifferencesAbilityTeamEmotionalAmountSolveGenerousTake TimePeersMaintainingFortitudeSmall AmountsBeing Generous Author:Kevin Allen
“A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character.” CharacterFilmGamesAbilityLevelsRoomsDealsEmotionalFootballSeasonsWeatherInjuryWillingnessSchemesRepetitionUps & DownsHigh LevelOffseason Author:Brendan Daly
“The goal of dream study is to increase one's contact with and access to the abilities of their subconscious mind. I became interested in dreams as an avenue to increase my knowledge of the subconscious mind, and increase my psychological and emotional effectiveness. I have been recording my dreams since I was seventeen.” MindHas BeensDreamGoalAbilityStudyEmotionalIncreaseAccessContactPsychologicalSubconsciousAvenuesEffectivenessSeventeenSubconscious Mind Author:Charles McPhee
“The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant - but waiting a few hundred thousand years for neurons to sprout into our brains - ones capable of having us create emotional relationships with other members of our species. We thereby double our biomass not by getting bigger, but by creating an ally.” YearsWaitingAbilityBrainMillionsGrowingEmotionalThousandMembersCreatingCapableHundredBiggerSpeciesSizeAlliesThousand YearsElephantsNeuronsSproutsRelationships With OthersBiomassEmotional Relationship Author:John Medina
“I think entire social groups are formed through technologies that could never exist in the real world, and relationships that are a function of these technologies' ability to accelerate feeling and emotional contact.” ThinkingWorldRealFeelingsAbilityTechnologyEmotionalReal World Author:Atom Egoyan
“Executive Intelligence is about the specific skills one must have in order to succeed in senior leadership positions, i.e. the ability to evaluate underlying assumptions, recognize the likely emotional reactions of individuals, or sense a misstep and make appropriate adjustments.” IndividualAbilityEmotionalSucceedAssumptionSeniorOrder To Succeed Author:Justin Menkes
“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.” PeopleReasonHappinessAbilityEmotionEmotionalIntelligentIntelligenceApplicationImpulse ControlEmotional ControlEmotions Feelings Book:More in Anger Source: More in Anger
“If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.” IfsWould BeLosesAbilityEmotionalAngryRefuseRobotsOutraged Author:Arundhati Roy