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.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

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.

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.

Pain only disables the weak.

Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.

I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

Fear is stronger than arms.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11 guys are doing on their side of the ball, how it all fits together. It's easy for them.

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.