Dale Carnegie Quotes

With everybody that I've met, there's always been something I've learned about them that I like.

When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself.

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

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

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

The most difficult thing to do is to communicate the positive.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.

Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.

It's our most underrated value, I think, as human beings is our sense of humor. It's how we choose our friends.

I can talk, I can express myself. But many times when people are talking just to talk, to say negative things, I don't like it because this is not a negative sport.

I think my greatest talent really is for friendship.

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

People are more important than things.