Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thompson once wrote that "as long as Nixon was politically alive...we could always be sure of finding the enemy on the Low Road. There was no need to look anywhere else for the evil bastard." The Peninsula performs the same function: it is a kind of moral compass...
...that there is an ingredient missing. Emotional skills, like intellectual ones, are morally neutral. Just as a genius could use his intellect either to cure cancer or engineer a deadly virus, someone with great empathic insight could use it to inspire colleagues or exploit them. Without a moral compass to guide people in how to employ their gifts, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, who invented the marshmallow test and others like it, observes that the knack for delaying gratification that makes a child one marshmallow richer can help him become...
...sense of shame is not a bad moral compass. I remember how easy it was for my mother to snap me back into line with a simple rebuke: "I'm ashamed of you. You embarrassed the family." I would have preferred a beating to those words...
...have forgotten that the Unabomber is a killer, not a leading expert on the causes of despair. The biggest threat to our well-being is not in our genes but in the absence of moral clarity and purpose. When we start quoting serial killers, we have lost our moral compass. I am disgusted that TIME and other publications have legitimized rather than condemned this murderer. RICK SHUMAN Los Angeles...
...often vexed referees, teammates and management while living the N.B.A. life to the fullest. But in 1992 he made his first hajj to Mecca, renewed his faith in Islam and added the H to his first name. Since then he has carried a prayer rug and a compass with him wherever he goes, and he has been at peace with the Rockets, opponents and, most important, himself. "You try your best to please Him," Olajuwon has said of his religion. "So you be the best personality you can. When you meet people, you're polite. You get all this acclamation...