"People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature."

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"People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Age, Youth

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Age, Absurdity, May

"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Age, Forget, Invention

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

Age, Writer

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Time, Old

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Age, Months

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"Not even old age knows how to love death."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Death, Love, Old

"No lie ever reaches old age."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Lie, Old

"At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me."

Barnaby C. Keeney, American Educator

Age, People, College, Hell

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"But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before."

Interest

"When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person."

Cognition

"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."

Social Issues

"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."

Business

"I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example."

Intelligence

"If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment."

Ability

"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."

Fight

"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

"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."

Emotional

"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."

Motivational