Quotes About Emotions

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy. … They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

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.

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.

Anyone can become angry —that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way —this is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nicomachean Ethics

people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. HORACE WALPOLE

emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood

Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory.

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.

Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings—anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness—is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when the emotions hold sway.

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even when we don't feel that way, but the payoff is better if we don't pretend when we feel weak or scared so that we allow people to show the kindness that's in them

When frustration is unchecked, Sam, it turns into rage, and rage triggers action.

that's not how wounds heal. They don't obey our wishes. Healing takes place in its own way and in its own time.

Children don't learn from lessons or teaching. They learn from what we honestly have to say about our feelings, and they learn from our behavior.

Early on, I loved ''my grandson''. After six months, I loved you. And I think something similar happened with your love for me.

Your differentness and my different-ness are just facts. Sometimes what we do with our minds turn those facts into pain, and sometimes we can just treat them as facts, acknowledging them but not feeling them. But the more you feel your different-ness, the more lonely you will feel.

When any relationship begins to sour, the details are different but the emotions are much the same: betrayal, disappointment, shattered dreams, and deadly silence.

The Queen died. The King died." "The Queen died. And the King died of a broken heart." The first line was fact. The second line was a story. It placed the facts in context, added emotion and made us connect to it by making it memorable.