Quotes About Understanding

But these most visible leadership abilities build not just on empathy, but also on managing ourselves and sensing how what we do affects others.

La gente tiende a ser muy eficiente en la gestión de las relaciones cuando logra comprender y controlar sus emociones y demostrar empatía por las de los demás.

The emotional/rational dichotomy approximates the folk distinction between heart and head; knowing something is right in your heart is a different order of conviction - somehow a deeper kind of certainty - than thinking so with your rational mind.

Then, there's the mistaken notion that EI always matters more than

And wisdom to know the difference.

good listeners are like trampolines: You can bounce ideas off of them, and rather than absorbing your ideas and energy, they amplify, energize, and clarify your thinking.

Empathy, as we have seen, leads to caring, altruism, and compassion. Seeing things from another's perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences.

Cuando el líder no sabe empatizar ni interpretar adecuadamente las emociones ajenas genera disonancia y

self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.

Para que Servem as Emoções? É com o coração que se vê corretamente; o essencial é invisível aos olhos. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, O Pequeno Príncipe

When we teach about anger, we help kids understand that it is almost always a secondary reaction and to look for what's underneath—are you hurt? jealous?

A Buddhist teacher once said that a poisonous snake is only poisonous when you walk toward it.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Empathy is an essential part of living a life of meaning.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.

To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we'd stop rattling, we'd adjust, we'd settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.

I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.

Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren't virgins, Min. That's why there's people to begin with.

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

You can't mind these things, you just can't, for to dislike what makes a person human is to dislike all humans.

You have to love the whole person, if you are truly in love.

Te ofrecí una aventura, Ed, justo delante de ti, pero tu no fuiste capaz de verla hasta que yo te la mostré, y por eso rompimos

He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.