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"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."
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Personal Development
"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"
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Personal Development
"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"
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Personal Development
"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"
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Personal Development
"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."
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Personal Development
"Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness."
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Personal Development
"All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying."
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Personal Development
"We've all been in the middle of a conversation and the person with whom we are speaking breaks eye contact, appears distracted, glazes over, or looks elsewhere. Their simple eye movement can quickly break down communications by making us feel ignored, dismissed, or rejected. For some, it may be accidental and unintentional, while for others, avoiding eye contact is on purpose."
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Personal Development
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
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Personal Development
"I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation."
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Personal Development
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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."
Attention
"People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature."
Age
"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."
Social Issues
"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
"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
"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
"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
"If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment."
Ability
"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
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