Emotional Competence Quotes

#1. Oh, the luxury of lying in the fern night and the grass night and the night of the susurrant, slumbrous voices weaving the night together.

Ray Bradbury

#2. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. Always amusing, that moment when realization finally kicked in. Sometimes, I wished I could've recorded the shit to play over and over for laughs.

Keri Lake

#4. The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. Action is the difference-make r. Remember that. If you're ready to take a big step forward, seek an open door as if your life depended on it. When you find it, go in bold and make it count.

Simon Black

#6. Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

Mignon McLaughlin

#7. 31 "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion?

Anonymous

#8. If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn't leave you too much over for action.

Agatha Christie

#9. Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They're there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.

T.K. Coleman

#10. Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work ... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.

Warren G. Bennis

#11. The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

Noam Chomsky

#12. Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship.

John Piper

#13. Since Lenin died, every Soviet leader had been a liar. They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality. The most striking characteristic of Soviet leadership for the last sixty-five year was the refusal to face facts.(1075)

Ken Follett

#14. Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.

Stephen Richards

#15. Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

Elliott Abrams