"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you must stop and look fear in the face."
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you’re empathic . . .
“If you’re empathic, you’re more likely to gain the cooperation of others because you show concern about their welfare. If you act in a self-serving of callous manner, people are more likely to avoid you.”
Steven J. Stein
The power of empathy . . .
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
Meryl Streep
Emotional intelligence at its best . . .
“Being able to enter flow is emotional intelligence at its best; flow represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performance and learning. In flow the emotions are not just contained and channeled, but positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand.”
Daniel Goleman
Change our direction . . .
“Unless we change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed.”
Chinese Proverb
Who blames others . . .
"The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others."
Carl Rogers
A stimulus for our feelings . . .
“The behavior of others may be a stimulus for our feelings, but not the cause. We are never angry because of what someone else did...It’s not what the other person does, but the images and interpretations in my own head that produce my anger.”
Marshall Rosenberg
All of us!
“None of us are as smart as all of us.”
Japanese Proverb
Conflict becomes productive . . .
“In great teams conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.”
Peter Senge
Questions asked in the wrong way . . .
“Problems that remain persistently insolvable should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”
Alan Watts
What he does with power . . .
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Pittachus
How you react . . .
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
Lou Holtz
The roots of war and the reasons for bombs . . .
"We often think of peace as the absence of war; that if the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance. Even if we transported all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we would make new bombs."
Thich Nhat Hanh
All that is unsolved in your heart . . .
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Genuine listening ability
“Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.”
Feargal Quinn
An environment of supportive conflict . . .
“The whole business starts with ideas, and we’re convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.”
Michael Eisner
Conflicts are laden with . . .
“Conflicts are laden with information that is essential for our growth, learning, intimacy, and change.”
Ken Cloke
Calm your fears . . .
"If you're not able to calm your fears, your fears will take over."
Wes Skiles
Sympathy and Empathy.
“Sympathy involves ‘feeling sorry’ for the other person or imaging how we would feel if we were experiencing what is happening to them. Empathy differs in that we try to imagine what it is like being that person and experiencing things as they do, not as we would.”
Theresa Wiseman
The mark of a developed mind . . .
“Empathy does not necessarily mean agreeing. It is the mark of a developed mind to be able to understand and accept another’s feelings without agreeing to it.”
Chade Meng Tan