Quotes About Emotional intelligence

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

dislike in ourselves.

At the heart of compassion is the ability to put yourself in other people's shoes and tempering your reactions to them through empathy. If you do not understand what someone is going through it is hard to feel compassion for them. You do not want to be that person who is always telling others 'I wish you would just get over it already'.

Jeez. Okay, okay, sorry I jumped on you. I'm a little tense. Would you tell me, since you're so brave and strong and smart, how you know this is the source?

The heart and the brain don't always mesh, do they? I know your heart, darling Eve, but your brain still has some mysterious corners.

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

Still, he forced himself to think of what Mary always said about emotions. You weren't responsible for them and you couldn't control them, but you were in charge of your response to them.

V sucked at sympathy. What was that saying? It was just a word between "shit" and "syphilis" in the dictionary.

about emotions. You weren't responsible for them and you couldn't control them, but you were in charge of your response to them.

I discovered that you can't train people how to trade by just imparting knowledge. The key to trading success is emotional discipline. Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. Think of all the bright people that choose careers on Wall Street. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.