Quotes about "Emotional Intelligence"

When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting. ”

I wanted pretty pictures of older women - women who are trying too hard but succeeding - pulling off an extreme look. What I didn't know would creep into the portraits was a vulnerability behind the strong facade that most of them wear. ”

My own feeling is we need more compassion, we need more empathy, we need more togetherness, in terms of working together. ”

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life. ”

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. ”

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. ”

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings. ”

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas. ”

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away. ”

Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' ”