Emo Philips Quotes

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

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.

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

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.

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

I think I'm a good judge of character.

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

I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.'

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.

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

One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men don't have to.

Experience helps you read certain situations better and make less mistakes in terms of behavior.

I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way.

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

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

Stand-up comedians know how to walk into a room, even if you're not performing, just read the temperature of a room, and can easily sort of tell what's going on or what people are sort of feeling in the room, and it allows you to sort of approach people.

What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued soothsayer when it came to dispensing opinions to my friends about their life choices or relationships.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

I'm really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.