Social Intelligence Quotes

• Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

  Daniel Goleman

  Compassion, Our World, Self

  "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.

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• When we focus on others, our world expands.

  Daniel Goleman

  Our World, Focus, Empathy

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, p.54, Random House

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• Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

  Nikola Tesla

  Intelligence, Social Behavior, World

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• Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent, they inherit an even stronger biological bias for kindness, compassion, cooperation, love and nurture - especially toward those in need. This inbuilt ethical sense is a biological feature of our species.

  Jerome Kagan

  Kindness, Compassion, Envy

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• My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Skills, Organization

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• When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.

  Daniel Goleman

  Eye, Men, Brain

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• There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

  Robert Greene

  People, Political, Stuff

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• Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Skills, Empathy

  "Sociability: It's all in your mind". Interview with Sharon Jayson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 24, 2006.

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• Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

  William H. Hastie

  Hopeful, Planning, Social

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• Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

  Robert Greene

  Mean, Social

  Twitter post from Feb 04, 2015

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• We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

  Peter Salovey

  Leadership, Emotional, Thinking

  Peter Salovey, Marc A. Brackett, John D. Mayer (2004). “Emotional Intelligence: Key Readings on the Mayer and Salovey Model”, p.1961, National Professional Resources Inc./Dude Publishing

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• We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

  Graydon Carter

  Elephants, Self, Empathy

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