Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

A good talker is sensitive to expression, to tone and color and inflection in human speech. Because he himself is articulate, he can help others to articulate their half-formulated feelings. His mind fills in the gaps, and he becomes, in Socrates' words, a kind of midwife for ideas that are struggling to be born.

When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means—for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings.

My dear grandmother (who was a psychic in her own right and very well known in Kansas City, Missouri) used to say if you find someone who doesn't like animals, children, or music . . . run.

Recall that thoughts lead to feelings, feelings lead to actions, and actions lead to results. Everything begins with your thoughts—which are produced by your mind.

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

Mingling with people, hurting them, getting hurt by them…that's how you learn about others…and about yourself. If you don't you'll never be able to care about anyone but yourself.

It wouldn't do him any good to cry, no matter how much he wanted to. He had to think. He had to try to gather as much information as he could, and lay it all out, and reason through it, and come up with some ideas of what to do and how to help.

Bernadette never said these things aloud like an evil stepmother in a fairy-tale, but she didn't have to. Letitia knew words were only part of who people were, and usually the least important part.

Don't be stupid and awkward," the dolphin says. "You want to walk together or not?" "You are a stupid piece of shit. Go away from me." The dolphin goes into the center of a circular clothing rack and quietly cries.

When we are free of self-concern or self-pity, free of inner preoccupations, compassion emerges as a spontaneous expression of our awareness

We see how our reactions to our emotions can keep us at a distance from ourselves.

In the Dalai Lama's words, "One of the deepest human desires is to be known and understood.

Having counter-thoughts ready makes it easier to challenge them, once mindfulness has brought them to your attention.

In Buddhist psychology, compassion is seen as a direct antidote to aggression.

schema responses are overreactions, not appropriate responses to difficult situations.

To some extent, raw emotions arise from a part of the brain without words.

Duboko i jednostavno: onaj ko ne može voljeti, ne može ni razumjeti.

Don't take insults to you heart, because bad words comes from stupid people and good words comes from smart people. If you think about it what kind of person it was who said bad words and what kind of person it was who said good words, you understand. You can't take stupid people words seriously and you can take smart people words seriously. I'm not perfect.

A paper clip could best the catch, but when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

When emotions run high, logic flies out the window, and performance usually follows.

Why you gotta be so mean?

S]kill at debate isn't the same as maturity.