Quotes About Emotional intelligence

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

Do you want me to answer that?

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

If you hug someone goodbye and their response is what the hell are you doing? - you may want to examine you're definition of close friend.

When one can possess loyalty even in the straits of full, brutal understanding, then that one understands all there is to understand about compassion

Our education system no longer teaches empathy,' Sam said. 'Now, if everybody in college had to take a minor in Literature, the world would be a better place.

What makes a better human being? Is it just a question of faster, stronger, smarter? But smarter in what way? Computationally? This idea of augmenting our species through technology, adding new RAM to the old hard-drive as it were, seems to miss the point. And that is that we can be better right now, without technology. Augmentation is pointless if we keep repeating the same old mistakes. And efficiency is not the same as better, not even close. You want to be a better human being? Start today.

Stupid people always had a reason to be angry but didn't have the capacity to understand that they were angry because they were frustrated, and they were frustrated because they didn't understand, and they didn't understand because they were stupid.

Simply said, much that is meaningful and worthwhile in life has little to do with logic, reason, or analysis.

At its core, empathy is the ability to see the world from another person's perspective, the capacity to tune in to what someone else might be thinking and feeling about a situation—regardless of how that view might differ from your own perception. It is an extremely powerful interpersonal tool.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

Anger, if not allowed to fester and grow out of proportion, is healthy, like a smoke alarm that if heeded can prevent all sorts of damage.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

Social media lacks insight, common sense, and emotion. Understand that while it's easy to condemn celebrities on social media, people should also think of repercussions their insensitive remarks can make on the celebrities' family.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.

People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can't expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can't put myself in their shoes, too.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.