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"Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses."
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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep."
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"Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful."
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"The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting."
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"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."
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"I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep."
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"The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing."
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"Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement."
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"The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them."
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"The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response."
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"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."
Emotional

"People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature."
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"If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily."
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"When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills."
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"Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father."
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"When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions."
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"If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment."
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"Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing."
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