Quotes About Emotional intelligence

But there is knowing something and then there is feeling it. For adults, these are two different things. For children, they are one.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

the reading of fiction facilitated the development of social skills because it provides the reader with the experience of thinking about other people.

A man who can't take a word of criticism hears it the most.

Todos nacemos con una capacidad extraordinaria para la imaginación, la inteligencia, las emociones, la intuición, la espiritualidad y con conciencia física y sensorial.

The conventional academic curriculum is focused almost entirely on the world around us and pays little attention to the inner world. We see the results of that every day in boredom, disengagement, stress, bullying, anxiety, depression, and dropping out. These are human issues and they call for human responses.

Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

violence is an ugly thing and in the calmer moments I racked my brains for other ways to get what I wanted. Better a brain than a fist. A brain can hold anything, from giant things like distant stars and planets, to tiny things we can't see, like germs. ... A brain can hold a whole universe, a fist just holds what little it can grab. Or hits what it can't.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)

Anything can be settled by an intellect that is not subject to the control of feeling—and yet the intellectual still suffers from a neurosis if feeling is undeveloped.

It is an every-day experience that our emotions are never at the level of our reasoning.

He was an extremely intelligent and perceptive man, and consequently doomed to a life of emotional and intellectual loneliness.

The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.

Con frecuencia caemos víctimas de las influencias negativas de los demás porque aceptamos sus críticas y opiniones negativas sin cuestionamientos, y así permitimos que siembren en nuestra mente falsas creencias que nos limitan física, emocional e intelectualmente.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

there is no mystery of human behavior that cannot be solved inside your head or your heart.

In the brilliant book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes seven key abilities most beneficial for human beings: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse.

1) When you feel fear, listen. 2) When you don't feel fear, don't manufacture it. 3) If you find yourself creating worry, explore and discover why.

Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes seven key abilities most beneficial for human beings: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse.

the brilliant book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes seven key abilities most beneficial for human beings: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many of those who commit violence never learned these skills. If you know a young person who lacks them all, that's an important pre-incident indicator, and he needs help.