Quotes About Emotional intelligence

By achieving consciousness, we can live from who we are today rather than who we were yesterday. In this way, we can respond appropriately to situations, tapping the full range and potential of our skills and talents, rather than inappropriately reacting to events, driven by the fears and insecurities of the past.

She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.

Goodwin scowled at her cup. With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.

Women could be quite crafty, he knew that much. His father said it often. Smarter than men, too, most of the time. You had to know your way around if you wanted to fall in love with a woman.

Boys who cry can work for Google. Boys who trash computers cannot. I once was at a science conference, and I saw a NASA scientist who had just found out that his project was canceled—a project he'd worked on for years. He was maybe sixty-five years old, and you know what? He was crying. And I thought, Good for him. That's why he was able to reach retirement age working in a job he loved.

They're not as smart as we are, they're not as intuitive as we are, and they certainly don't need to know about fifty percent of what we do." She looked around. "He didn't hear that, did he?

My mother often says that it is the mark of a truly good person if she is happy for those she has never met.

Is it how we feel or how we think that is more important in determining whether we are morally good human beings?

The fact that someone is not particularly intelligent is no guide in these things. People may be stupid and extremely complicated just as they can be clever and incapable of deep feeling.

trust your heart but use your head

Being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences, truly hearing what other people have to say, and assessing our own circumstances.

Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

There was no physical tenderness; but she always knew what to do if there was a problem.

I stared at him. I kid myself that I understand people, that I can predict what stupid, pathetic thing they're going to do next.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

There is in human nature generally, more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties, by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken, are most potent.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed

Emotions help us navigate a complex world that we don't fully comprehend. They are our body's way of ensuring that we do what is best for us.

Emotions belong as much to the body as to the mind.