Marcus Buckingham Quotes

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

Sentiment inspires me no less than reason.

If you're not gonna be happy, then it's not worth doing anything.

Listen to your heart. It knows everything.

Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.

It can't be bought. It can't be taught. It must be caught.

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

I trust my judgment when I think it's boring, dull, tepid and not interesting. That's important to listen to. And the same on the set. That's a little easier because you can see it in front of you and you can just see how great they are and you know you have something wonderful when they do something wonderful.

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

Happiness is more important than money any day.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

Contentment: The smother of invention.

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.