Quotes About Emotional intelligence

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charge blindly across the emotional minefield and get down as soon as possible to geeking out

Words may help you understand something. Experience allows you to know. Yet there are some things you cannot experience. So I have given you other tools of knowing. And these are called feelings. And so too, thoughts.

Remember this: It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent.

That is what is meant by "getting back to your senses." It is a returning to how you feel, not how you think.

Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all. No judgment implied. Just an observation.

I used to think that a good relationship meant always getting along. But the secret, I realize, is that when one person shuts down or throws a fit, the other needs to stay in the adult ego state. If both people descend to the wounded child or adapted adolescent, that's when all forces of relationship drama and destruction are unleashed.

We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

The person who is too smart to love is truly an idiot.

What's helped with saying no to others is asking myself first if I'm saying yes out of guilt or fear. If so, then it's a polite no.

dehumanizing the opposite sex

The problem is not primarily external and resolved by learning to behave better. The problem is internal

Never have sex with a woman who has more problems than you do.

I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.

I'm not unintelligent, mind you. But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and in retrospect, I obviously lack many of those traits. Here's

This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence.

We think empathy is innate, but it's not. It's a muscle you're working.

I think people tend to be very myopic and they don't understand how their actions impact others.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.

A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.

I don't think it's that difficult to distinguish between people with narcissistic disorders and people with high self-esteem.

I've never been in a place where I've wanted to be that nasty to someone.

I've been a foul-mouthed knave." "Well, I don't know." "A beetle-headed malfeasor." "Nothing so—" "A base, proud tottyhead." He paused, but she said nothing. "Aren't you going to object?" "No," she drawled the word. "Humility is so refreshing in a man.