Quotes about "Emotional Intelligence"

I've always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety. ”

As a student, I was a total jhalli who used to wear torn denims, faded kurtis, kohled eyes and thought that I was the coolest girl ever! We were a bunch of students who used to do social-issue-based street plays and believed that we could bring about a change in the world. ”

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me. ”

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse. ”

Ask a celebrity what social cause he or she wants to take up, and many would say utopic things. For me, however, the decision is very clear... I want to do something for children, a category of people I am genuinely fond of. ”

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it. ”

I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion. ”

It's become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which is as emotional and connected and deep. ”

Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives. ”

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that. ”