Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Simply put, if you have some emotion within you that you don't know how to manage, you seal that emotion away and start trying to manage other people's versions of it.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. —Gautama Siddhãrta

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

I like everybody," I told her. I thought I'd get her to laugh, but she just looked at me.

You could've found me. You could've demanded an explanation. Instead your bright idea to deal with this mess was not to talk to me. Do you get off having me chase after you like some sixteen-year-old?" "Twelve tops. Sixteen is giving you too much credit." He bit the air. "Look who's talking.

Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive.

Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn't disapprove of people. It cuts you off.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself—no offense intended.

La mente es mucho mas interesante que el cuerpo.

Superego is not the same as consciousness; the former punishes us and the latter guides us. I stopped listening to the overseer inside me who demands compliance and performance with the voice of my grandfather. The race uphill is over; now I stroll calmly in the land of intuition, which has turned out to be the best environment for writing.

Hay tres reglas básicas que aplica en sus relaciones humanas: no es personal, cada uno es responsable de sus sentimientos, la vida no es justa.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Hate is not a good counselor.

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.