Giorgio Chiellini Quotes

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

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.

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

… temperament is your basic orientation toward life. The Elizabethans boiled it down to four types: You were choleric or sanguine or melancholy or aggressive. You can be a good leader from any of them. Lincoln was melancholy, but what a president! It’s more to do with how you grow, how you learn from your mistakes.

You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it.

I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

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.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

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

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

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

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Through time you learn from your experiences. I think I've learned to deal with people a little bit better over time. That in particular has developed a little bit.

Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

Exceptional employees don't possess God-given personality traits; they rely on simple, everyday EQ skills that anyone can incorporate into their repertoire.