Skills Quotations | Page 3

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and then determine how you will achieve them (what skills you will have to learn, what actions will you have to take). And these are totally under your control. These are not dependent upon anyone else.

Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.