But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

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.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the populace at large.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

What you do simply proves what you believe.