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.
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Related If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war. SAMANTHA SMITH If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able ... ASTRO TELLER I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - an... DAVID KNOPFLER If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab... KELLY ROWLAND That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset some... LEWIS BLACK Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you a... WARREN CUCCURULLO If you aren't going to make your revenue plan, it's unlikely you'll make your EBITDA or ... BRAD FELD If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ... NATE DIAZ If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don... ANN LANDERS If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the od... BRETT HOEBEL If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? T. S. ELIOT It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't ... VANILLA ICE What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language? T. C. BOYLE And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you sho... WALTER ISAACSON It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don&... JOEL MADDEN If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money ... HENRY KRAVIS If you don't do the suspense correctly, then your jump scares are not going to work. JAMES WAN What will happen if you can't say that this wasn't a film? DEYTH BANGER If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you hav... JACKIE GLEASON But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very se... CHRIS KLEIN It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it d... RICHARD P. FEYNMAN The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things tha... DANA CARVEY If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at ... BERNARD SUMNER If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down. ROBERT ALTMAN If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'Y... RUTH BADER GINSBURG All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't und... PEP GUARDIOLA You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you'... JILLIAN MICHAELS The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a cer... CHRIS PINE The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If... DAVID SIMON You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic contex... CONDOLEEZZA RICE If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to. JONATHAN IVE If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your o... CLIFFORD STOLL In my view, if you have good or bad technique, it doesn't matter. But you will survive if you ca... VIRENDER SEHWAG So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for ver... YAHOO SERIOUS If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more tree... 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BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don'... SOPHIA AMORUSO You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't b... KEN ROBINSON It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. Th... RAHUL GANDHI Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means... NIGEL MANSELL Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER Fashion can always be a part of your life no matter what shape or size you are. You don't need t... HAYLEY HASSELHOFF There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don... T. D. JAKES If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell... ERNST FISCHER Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's s... ANNA QUINDLEN Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular... HENRY JAMES Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r... STEPHEN CHOW I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to l... RUGGIERO RICCI If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime. JON STEWART If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then i... PAUL MOONEY If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple. DALLAS WILLARD You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either. GALE HAROLD If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, ... TAMORA PIERCE If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. ROBERT CAPA If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy l... CIARA If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave t... JOSE MUJICA If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness. DAVID GEST You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to ea... BEN MCLEMORE If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with... GISELE BUNDCHEN There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they do... KENNY BAKER I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad da... JULIANNE HOUGH If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let... ECKHART TOLLE Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and ... SEAN HAYES If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life. BRYCE HARPER If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. JIM ROHN You can't be funny if you don't have good material. MATT LEBLANC Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid. CHAZ BONO I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything... JOE NAMATH I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medicat... DANIEL GOLEMAN You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you hav... STEVEN ADLER If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where... MEEK MILL Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. E... M. J. ROSE If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence... CHARLES M. SCHWAB If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan... JIM ROHN If you don't try your hardest, and you're unsuccessful, you always have that excuse. ALEXI ZENTNER If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. MAYA ANGELOU I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart t... DEBBIE REYNOLDS If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can'... BERNARD BARUCH If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another. B. B. KING If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't ... MICHAEL POLLAN You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... ROSALYNN CARTER I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is try... RAEKWON Don't matter if you're rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own exp... FUTURE The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have v... JACK MA If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. HAROLD S. GENEEN If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have... HAL SPARKS If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems... BRUCE SCHNEIER Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattract... JOEL OSTEEN I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not ... CAMERON DIAZ I don't really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don't. I really don... TOM BRADY
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But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ... DANIEL ESPINOSA I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... DANIEL ESPINOSA Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w... DANIEL ESPINOSA I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing. DANIEL ESPINOSA When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie. DANIEL ESPINOSA It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age... DANIEL ESPINOSA The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret... DANIEL ELLSBERG I agree that there are things that should be kept secret. DANIEL ELLSBERG It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'... DANIEL ELLSBERG If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav... DANIEL ELLSBERG President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim... DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis... DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie... DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli... DANIEL ELLSBERG My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an... DANIEL ELLSBERG We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right. DANIEL ELLSBERG There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year. DANIEL ELLSBERG There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio... DANIEL ELLSBERG Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha... DANIEL ELLSBERG In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga... DANIEL EK This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun... DANIEL EK The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want... DANIEL EK Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that... DANIEL EK I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much c... DANIEL EK In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact tha... DANIEL EK With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. 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