Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Whenever we are in the box, we have a need that is met by others' poor behavior. And so our boxes encourage more poor behavior in others, even if that behavior makes our lives more difficult.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.

Quickly enough we feel and reckon up what we bear at the hands of others, but we reflect not how much others are bearing from us.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

It's funny that through learning how to physically fight, you also learn how to navigate really complicated and hard conversations with people.

It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.

What makes someone sexy in my mind is who they are. It's not necessarily how they look.

People throw insults at you, and sometimes they hit a nerve - and it's about not showing that, because they will pick on that. Don't feed the trolls!

Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

This is probably an asset that my wife hates, where you compartmentalize. Most times, I think it's an asset, where you can just sort of feel like you chop off one part of your brain to do the next thing that you've got to do.

I've learnt that, sometimes, how others see you is not the same as how you see yourself. I've learnt about how you can be multitasking - and sometimes other people see that you're multitasking. And that's not very nice for them.

Because if you get someone who is a bit of a diva or are just not on the same page it can be a nightmare - and I'd rather go out knowing they've had an amazing time and we've got on than win the Glitterball although you've just had a horrible time and the person was horrible.

There's no point screaming and shouting at the manager.

wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition

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.

I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.

Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes you just have to, otherwise you'll never get anywhere. That's where I've been going wrong. I've been letting the weather and my stomach muscles and a great chord change in a Pretenders single make up my mind for me, and I want to do it for myself.

if I do OK with women, it's not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don't have.

She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him.

It takes a certain skill set to be partnered. You have the biological knowledge of the machine. What are the parts, where are they located, how do they work, what do they do? Then there is your intellectual understanding about sex, in history, what you believe about sex, what you were taught about sex. Then there's you intrapersonal skill, your relationship with yourself. Then there are interpersonal skills.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

Let's face it: everyone is the one person on earth you shouldn't get involved with. p83