Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents teachers and with each other carry emotional messages.

When I went on to write my next book Working With Emotional Intelligence I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know some of these jokes just write themselves.

Well I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

You know as director of the CIA I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Well look CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that since 1998 there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature both animals and plants the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself you don't have to think about it.

If an animal does something we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason we call it intelligence.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret since I've never seen any intelligent military person nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence their character their knowledge reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence but an optimist because of will.