Peter Salovey Quotes

#1. There weren't sidewalks to skateboard on and malls to hang out in. There wasn't anything to do. And I was too scrawny to play football, and so I decided I was just gonna sit at the piano, because it made more sense.

John Fullbright

#2. Keep the Mach up!

Richard H. Graham

#3. He'd wanted to mend her just like his mother had mended his favorite teddy bear when his arm had come loose after too much play. He offered her his pudding cup instead.

Brooke Warra

#4. Isn't anyone going to take these damnable arrows out of me?

Cayla Kluver

#5. At Yale we don't just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

Peter Salovey

#6. The most effective way to combat speech you don't like is with speech.

Peter Salovey

#7. It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

#9. I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval Europe. Suicidal tendencies were de rigueur at the time, and I'm nothing if not trendy.

Gene Doucette

#10. We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

Peter Salovey

#11. People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

Peter Salovey

#12. Asperger's syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational detachment.

Graeme Simsion