Quotes about "Emotional Intelligence"

I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC. ”

Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical. ”

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think. ”

I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it. ”

I really want to test my athletic ability, my toughness, and my skills against those guys who are in my ballpark size-wise. ”

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun. ”

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. ”

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. ”

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ”

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. ”