Quotes About Emotional intelligence

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

Just like a weak muscle, compassion strengthens with training. Almost anyone can learn to be more compassionate and kinder with themselves and others.

What, for example, could be more calculated to produce brutal wife-beaters than long practice of savage cruelty towards the other animals?" -Edith Ward

If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.

But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.

Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.

Sin embargo, había algo respecto a lo que era tajante: no toleraba a la gente que la hacía sentirse mal consigo misma.

Is the brain designed to make us flare in anger when we think we are being attacked? Fine—but most of us learn to count to ten and find alternatives to beating the other guy with a cudgel. An appreciation of how dissonance works, in ourselves and others, gives us some ways to override our wiring. And protect us from those who can't.

Eye contact is what keeps us civilized.

It's good to know all sides if you're gonna love someone

Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as seven) then he wasn't as smart as I thought he was – as I knew he was.

I may not take cristicism well, but that doesn't mean I'm not hearing it. I'll hear it later. Right now I'm storing it in my delayed response area, because it's hard for me. I wish I was someone who welcomed cristicism and immediately understood its valeu, but I'm not, and if I look unhappy about this, I am.

But ultimately I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

Enough, both of you,' Clary said. 'You can't be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.' Technically,' said Simon, 'I can.' Jace made an inelegant noise; after a moment Clary realized that he was trying not to laugh, and only semi-succeeding.

Love conquers all — intellects.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Beneath your skin are muscles. Learn to use them. It is your face. Your cheeks, your lips, your ears. Smiles and scowls should not come upon you like sudden squalls. A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it. Learn to rule your face.

Tvoj je problem taj što ti razum upravlja životom.O svemu razmišljaš.Razmišljaš kad bi morao osje?ati.Otvori se,prepusti na volju srcu,osje?ajima...

I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning.

nothing is accomplished when people face each other shouting words that neither hear.

There are other ways of knowing than just through reason.

You cannot know what you cannot feel.