Quotes About Emotional intelligence

One aspect we might focus on during this moratorium is an alternative to overly cerebral approaches.

Each of us constantly makes decisions about how to interact with other people, and each of those decisions has the potential to either harm or enhance the other person's well-being.

Listening and trying to understand the needs of those we would communicate with seems to me to be the essential prerequisite of any real communication. And we might as well aim for real communication.

Love is at the root of everything. All learning, all parenting, all relationships. Love or the lack of it.

Understanding love is one of the hardest things in the world.

Anger is a bad counselor.

I am a terrible judge of character' "I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset, not feelings.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber" Jeff Bezos

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I.

I'm not good with relationships, Shallan." "Is there anyone who actually is? I mean, is there really someone out there who looks at relationships and thinks, 'You know what, I've got this'? Personally, I rather think we're all collectively idiots about it.

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

You should try to understand what they want out of life, and respect that, rather than projecting onto them what you think they should want out of life.

We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards.

We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards. Or why your employer hired you in the first place.

You have to learn when to care. And when to let go. You'll grow calluses.

I'd be the world's biggest hypocrite if I couldn't love you despite your occasional stupid idea.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

When we're kind to ourselves, we create a reservoir of compassion that we can extend to others. Our children learn how to be self-compassionate by watching us, and the people around us feel free to be authentic and connected.

But those who are able to distinguish between a range of various emotions "do much, much better at managing the ups and downs of ordinary existence than those who see everything in black and white.

In a world where perfectionism, pleasing, and proving are used as armor to protect our egos and our feelings, it takes a lot of courage to show up and be all in when we can't control the outcome. It also takes discipline and self-awareness to understand what to share and with whom. Vulnerability is not oversharing, it's sharing with people who have earned the right to hear our stories and our experiences. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

neuroscientist Antonio Damasio reminds us, "We are not necessarily thinking machines. We are feeling machines that think.

If empathy is the skill or ability to tap into our own experiences in order to connect with an experience someone is relating to us, compassion is the willingness to be open to this process.