Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Why is it men think beating on each other fixes anything?' 'Why do women think eating chocolate does? It's the nature of the beast.

Feelings are feelings. I don't understand why people blame other people for what they feel.

When are you going to stop being annoyed

She'd made a policy not to analyze men she dated. Too often you learned more than you wanted to know.

Sure, but that's not going to make her happy. She has the hots for you. Get out. Buy a clue, Sophia said lightly, and stepped out again to arrange for the meeting with her assistan

She's going to have to be more than smart. She'll have to be brilliant. She is. That's what makes her a pain in the ass. Stuck on her, are you? David waved the comment away. Sorry. Too personal. I was wondering if you were asking as a corporate suit, an associate or as the guy who's dating her mother. I was aiming toward friend.

The head is always the dupe of the heart. —LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.

They listen carefully and empathically, are nonjudgmental, are open to new experiences and perspectives, are approachable and friendly, and like to listen

Sometimes you need to let things strike your heart and not your head.

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.

They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and then do what other people do when they have done it.

He's read nothing, thought nothing, felt nothing, he could hear her saying in that empathic voice which carried so much farther than she knew.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...

fully. Still, I found that like most tyrants, Self 1 didn't like losing control and resisted efforts to minimize his influence.

Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him on the job. What if he'd been injured in the line of duty and didn't come by as promised because he was incapacitated in some way? Maybe he hadn't called to apologize or to explain his absence because he physically couldn't. Right. And maybe she had checked her brain into her panties from the second she first laid eyes on the man.

You don't have to respond to everything said to you. Sometimes you can just smile.

No one likes to be on the receiving end of a gift projector's drive-by guilting.

Since the ask is an "emotional firecracker" with emotions running quite high, it is important to drill down and see how important your tone of voice is when you ask. While the selection of your words when you make your ask is incredibly important, as you will see in the later chapters, my expression is "Your tone is as important as your words.

Nadie pide lo que no necesita. A medida que pasan los años, esas necesidades no satisfechas siguen operando con la misma intensidad que en sus comienzos. Pero los adultos estamos cada vez menos dispuestos a comprender los mensajes, sobre todo repitiendo la frase "ya sos grande". O la de peor categoría: "Eso es una regresión".

Everyone's unhappy if they have even a sliver of intelligence. Who can be happy in this world?

Hi there! You're cute. Do you have any girlfriends? 'Cause Gran says Momma needs a man in her life. Then Pops says, 'Pfft, Martine, the last thing Elise needs is a man!' But I think my Gran is right." "Rennie, for tonight, let's play the think-about-what-we-say-before-we-say-it-game.