1. “The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”
2. “Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.”
3. “Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.”
4. “The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.”
5. “Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.”
6. “Life without passion would be dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.”
7. “Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.”
8. “There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.”
9. “Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers and with each other carry emotional messages.”
10. “One way to boost our will power and focus i to manage ourdsistractions instead of letting them manage us.”
11. “The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and mor enjoyable your relationships will be.”
12. “Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.”
13. “Compassion begins with attention.”
14. “Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike.”
15. “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”
16. “Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.”
17. “People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.”
18. “The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.”
19. “People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.”
20. “CEO’s are hired for their intellect and business expertise – and fired for lack of emotional intelligence.”
21. “The social brain is in its natural habitat when we’re talking with someone face-to-face in real time.”
22. “Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else’s toxic state.”
23. “One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”
24. “A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.”
25. “Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.”
26. “The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.”
27. “Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.”
28. “Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit”
29. “Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.”
30. “Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.”
