Quotes About Emotional intelligence

our power to conduct our relations with other people depends upon our power of conducting our relations with ourselves. Every

Less energy on emotions, more energy on solutions" is a useful perspective most employers would like all of their employees to employ.

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When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn't "mean anything" because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his sense of humor. Your son will have his eyes.

If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. It's about the person who's being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird. If this were summed up on a bumper sticker, it would say: Don't own other people's crap. The world would be a better place if we all did that.

The body knows. When your heart sinks. When you feel sick to your gut. When something blossoms in your chest. When your brain gloriously pops. That's your body telling you the One True Thing. Listen to it.

But love doesn't make a mean drunk not a mean drunk or a narcissist not a narcissist or a jackass not a jackass.

You will feel insecure and jealous. How much power you give those feelings is entirely up to you.

There's a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called "Splittings" that I thought of when I read your letter. The last two lines of the poem are: "I choose to love this time fore once / with all my intelligence.

think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain.

No is golden. No is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

Transformation often demands that we separate our emotional responses from our rational minds

But transformation often demands that we separate our emotional responses from our rational minds.

Although charming when the situation demanded, Brad would never be accused of being happy-go-lucky. He was intelligent, and like most intelligent people, he could be moody, withdrawn, especially when bothered or . . . Thomasine hesitated to say scared.

She gave me an understanding nod. But she could never understand that losers, even if they do not have a brain, have a heart.

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

I've found it's 80 percent psychology and 20 percent skills.

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

We either manage our thoughts & emotions or they manage us

Feelings must be dealt with before behavior can be improved.

In discipline whatever generates rage should therefore be avoided. Anything that enhances selfconfidence and respect for one's self and others is to be fostered.

Beauty is not just physical.

As the endlessly patient husband explained of his volatile wife's outbursts some years later: "If you knew how little harm it does me, and how much good it does her, you wouldn't wonder that I am meek.