Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Look at people in your life as "practice." The way you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.