Quotes about "Emotional Intelligence"

We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle. ”

For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face. ”

Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music. ”

We're a social species, and we want to get along with the people we like and who are like us. That's just good adaptive behaviour. We're more likely to accept something if we hear it from a friend, whereas we're sceptical of people who are not like us - which is what leads to racism, nationalism, sexism and all forms of bigotry. ”

Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every social detail they needed to know in their heads. ”

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states. ”

I believe we're all endowed with a very small set of narrow skills that make us unique. You've got to find what that is. Most often what you truly understand makes you unique is something that you're also going to build passion around. ”

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to. ”

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being. ”

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have. ”