Quote to Live By

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
---Steve Jobs

A quote to contemplate

“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.” Albert Einstein

Great Quote for a Challenging Day

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

—M. Scott Peck(1936-2005); Psychiatrist, Author

The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.
Chinese proverb

Emotional Intelligence Will Make You More Productive

While developing emotional intelligence is hard work, the payoffs are great. I love this quote from Daniel Goleman.

"Negative emotions, especially anger, anxiety or a sense of futility, powerfully
disrupt work, hijacking attention from the task at hand."

Daniel Goleman (from Primal Leadership)

EI and the Inspiring Leader

"Executives who fail to develop self-awareness risk falling into
An emotionally deadening routine that threatens their true selves.
Indeed a reluctance to explore your inner landscape not only
weakens your own motivation but can also corrode your ability
to inspire others.“

The Harvard Business Review

Emotional Literacy

"Our aim is to create an Emotionally Literate Culture, where the facility to
handle the complexities of emotional life is as widespread as the capacity to
read, write and do arithmetic."

Susie Orbach