“Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth. Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it. Fosters empathy and wonder.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayChildrenImportantDifferentPlayFormGrowthWonderCreativePossibilityEmotionalHealthyIntellectualEmpathyFoundationDifferent WaysRespondingIncorporatingEmotional GrowthMagical ThinkingIntellectual Growth Author:Rachel Carson
“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
“There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.” MindDifferentBodyBrainEmotionalEmpathyZeroControlledCorrelation Author:Daniel Goleman
“Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.” PeopleChildrenKidsSchoolGamesToo MuchEmotionalNormalEmpathyBaseballMental HealthIncrediblesAutismSensoryAutisticStimulationBaseball GamesOverloadCafeteriaMeltdownsInformation OverloadLack Of EmpathyNo EmpathySchool Cafeteria Author:Temple Grandin
“Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon--the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.” GivingChildrenStatesSeemsSufferingParentResultsCasesEmotionalWeaponsEmpathyRelationGuiltReactionsSensitiveApprovalHouseholdSpouseParent ChildRemarriage Book:Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.” LooksSocialEmotionalSkillsEmpathyEmotional IntelligenceSocial SkillsInterpersonalSocial Intelligence Author:Daniel Goleman
“Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.” ChanceAttentionEmotionalCommunicationEmpathyConnectionsPay AttentionLackingEmotional Connection Author:Daniel Goleman
“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
“Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.” IfsInspirationalNeedsChildrenChristianUnderstandingCompassionChildhoodEmotionalEmpathyUnderstoodOur ChildrenLifetimeMy ChildrenSympathyRaising ChildrenParentalEmotional NeedsMakeovers Author:Florence Littauer
“Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like my judgmentalism; I didn't like my absolutism. I didn't like my repression of natural empathy, my pinched lack of emotional generosity. How I had been thinking politically had less to do with what was wrong with the world and more to do with what was wrong with me, with my fears and insecurities, failings, weaknesses.” ThinkingWorldFactsHouseNaturalMy OwnFailingEmotionalEmpathyWeaknessGenerosityInsecurityRepressionAbsolutism Author:Steve Erickson
“All people share the same desire to be treated equally. We all go through similar emotional journeys from love to hate, rejection to acceptance. I think the most important thing for dance right now is to allow for more empathy and understanding between people of different races and socioeconomic statuses. In our society we need to build bridges.” PeopleThinkingImportantDifferentDesireHateUnderstandingJourneyShareAcceptanceEmotionalEmpathyRejectionLove Hate Author:Dana Tai Soon Burgess
“For us what we're trying to do is find the right balance of creating a space for emotion that leads to a sense of empathy and solidarity rather than a sense of division. In my most grandiose moments I think of HuffPost as a platform that makes solidarity possible, that really thinking about the emotional content of stories is a way to help people who think, or who have been manipulated to think, that they're interests are opposed to one another, that they actually are aligned in a fundamental way and they're actually in the same boat.” PeopleThinkingTryingMomentsHelpingInterestEmotionEmotionalBalanceEmpathyBoatSolidarity Author:Lydia Polgreen
“I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.” TryingRealityCertainActingFiguresEmotionalExerciseEmpathyConfused Author:Edward Norton
“The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.” PeopleLovePainStruggleEmotionalEmpathyRelateAbandoned Author:Oprah Winfrey