Othman Alamri

“I wonder if it wouldn’t have been better if the Almighty had created us all as – well – as sort of plants. You know, firmly embedded in the soil. Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“Stress makes people stupid.” On”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“A series of studies by Marian Radke-Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the National Institute of Mental Health showed that a large part of this difference in empathic concern had to do with how parents disciplined their children. Children, they found, were more empathic when the discipline included calling strong attention to the distress their misbehavior caused someone else: “Look how sad you’ve made her feel” instead of “That was naughty.”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“It demoralizes people just to hear that they are doing “something” wrong without knowing what the specifics are so they can change.”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence