Quotes About Emotional intelligence

I don't delude myself with either self-pity or conceit: I can evaluate my own psychological state with the utmost objectivity and consistency. I know precisely which emotional resources I have and which I lack, and how much value I place on each. I have no regrets.

In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing.

Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.

What is important in correction is not venting your feelings, anger or hurt; it is, rather, understanding the nature of the struggle that your child is having. What is important is understanding the "why" of what has been done or said.

If you're a gazelle, you don't have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It's not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression.

A number of politicians have failed to recognise the consistent truth of history: that we're both an emotional and a rational species, and that we make decisions very emotionally.

A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

Be calm when your wife yells at you, calmer when she chastens you, but be terrified when she ignores you.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.

No man should be angry with what is true.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.