Rana Daggubati Quotes

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 have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

I don't see myself as offending people.

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Give the other person the ability to save face…. Don’t rub his nose in things.

Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.

I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people.

Being sensitive means caring for your own feelings as well as those of others.

It's completely beyond comprehension that you just can't say anything without offending somebody or the other.

Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.

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

We don't like offending anyone.

When somebody says something stupid to me, I usually alleviate it with laughter and humour. I make light of it to educate people on why it's inappropriate.