Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Awesome," I told him. "I felt defensive at first, like I hadn't done anything worth apologizing for, but I recognized that it wasn't about my intention; it was about how my action was received. That my action was unwelcome. I get that now, and it didn't take long for it to click this time.

if you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.

She knew that most men desired her because she was attractive and she was smart, but also because she was a drunk and she was easy. This one? She hoped for his sake he wasn't as different as he seemed, because she always disappointed those men quickly or broke their hearts over time.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

My mom always told me: Never make fun of anybody, because you never know what that person is going through. Ever since I was a kid, I never did. I never did.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.

Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.

Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they're coming from.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

If I called my kids a moron, I think it would traumatize them. I don't think they even know what the word is.

My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.

I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.

When I work with players, whether their level is higher or lower, for me the most important thing is to know the person, what is in their heart.

Menjadi rasional tidaklah sama dengan menjadi sangat cerdas secara intelektual.

And when a mind is too deficient in understanding, the resulting gap is often filled with resentment. —

It doesn't matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you're not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren't connected, aren't working together harmoniously, well, you're just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you're walking, you may think you're running a damn marathon, but you're only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained.

A person's love is only as good as the person; a stupid person loves stupidly, a violent man loves violently.