Warren Bennis Quotes

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

Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

My strength is that I'm an empath.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

I can access emotions very easily.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

I'm sensitive. I'm proud of being sensitive. I'm proud of being empathetic.

They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.