Salovey Quotes & Sayings

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular. — Eduard Hanslick

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves. — Cat Deeley

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. — Charles B. Rangel

At Yale we don't just want to make new things, we want to make things better. — Peter Salovey

I remembered Sydney saying I was a hot commodity here. Scorching was more like it, apparently. — Richelle Mead

Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them. — Kate Bush

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

Lindsey Graham is now the seventh Republican running for president. If you're keeping score, that's basically one Republican candidate for every two Republican voters. — Conan O'Brien

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid — Bradley Wiggins

Rioting begets violence begets rioting. I sometimes think the entire human race is comprised of barely restrained animals, avid for any excuse to tear off their masks of civility. And here I am, always trying desperately to keep mine on. — Karen Marie Moning

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I can't die. It would ruin my image. — Jack LaLanne

I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family, in school, and at work. The real challenge is to show that emotional intelligence matters over-and-above psychological constructs that have been measured for decades like personality and IQ. I believe that emotional intelligence holds this promise. — Peter Salovey

With the danger of terrorism and war spreading in the world, now is the right moment to stop and reconsider our actions and do everything possible to bring an end to the fighting, be it in your own homeland, neighboring countries, or in your region. — Dalia Grybauskaite

The most effective way to combat speech you don't like is with speech. — Peter Salovey

Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord. — Martin Luther

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving. — Peter Salovey

Leaves in the light of red flames; the wind laughs out of golden clouds. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future! — Philippe Kahn