Parker Palmer Quotes

I pick up on other people's discomfort.

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.

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

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

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

I'm good at reading people.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

I just think self-satisfied people ignore certain signs about other people.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

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

You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.

My strength is that I'm an empath.

I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.

In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.

I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus, empathy has been turned off. When we shift our attention to dual focus empathy has been turned on. Empathy is our ability to identify what someone else is thinking or feeling and to respond to there thought or feelings with an approriate emotion. Empathy makes the other person feel valued, enabling them to feel that their thoughts and feelings have been heard.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.