Quotes About Emotional intelligence

A good listener is a witness, not a judge of your experience.

Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment — and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person.

Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgement and, for a few moments at least, existing for the other person

One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We're able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'

I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me in some passive/aggressive way, so I felt bad about myself at the same time.

I don't have resentments towards anyone I played with or to the guy who bullied me in the sixth grade. I've worked through it.

Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.

Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

It is not possible to love and be wise.

Knowledge isn't love

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.