Quotes About Emotional intelligence

This is the map we wish to construct in our heads: a reliable guide that allows us to avoid those who are not worthy of our time and trust and to embrace those who are. The best indications that our always-tentative maps are faulty include feelings of sadness, anger, betrayal, surprise, and disorientation.

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.

Don't be mean when you've had a bad day. Be nice, and your day will get better.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

May I know what it is to feel the weight on another's shoulders.

That which supremely differentiates the fool from the wise man is this—that the fool meets passion with passion, hatred with hatred, and returns evil for evil; whereas the wise man meets passion with peace, hatred with love, and returns good for evil.

It was his hatred and his intelligence that he cherished, the one feeding the other.

But men have no secrets, except from women, and never grow up in the way that women do. It is very much harder, and it takes longer for a man to grow up, and he could never do it at all without women.

Judgment," she said, "has nothing to do with love.

The options appear to be especially narrow for males who carry a profound sadness—and accompanying rage—in a culture that teaches boys that "it is better to be mad than to be sad." Sometimes this leads to horrific choices.

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

When someone's portraying something they're not to get underneath my skin, I'm just going to funnel that into a great strategy, and I'm going to try to get him out of there quick.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

There are few things that are more revealing about someone than the way that they talk about a piece of literature or a play. You very quickly come to have a much deeper understanding of someone than you would if you just mingled together in a pub saying, 'All right, how are you?'

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

As much as a man would like to believe that he understands women, there is simply that much that he can write from their point of view or really understand them.

I've always understood that, as a woman and as a person of color, I would always have to work harder; I would have to have thicker skin. I would have to be more mindful of my reactions, the way I spoke to people.