Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.

When it comes to Kerala, reasoning gets the upper hand rather than emotions.Our political outlook is related to the educational standards and political consciousness.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

The important thing is that when you correct your children, they see what they've done wrong and why you're upset.

People don't listen to each other anymore, and I think that's why people get offended or their feelings get hurt: because you're not actually listening to the person that's giving you signals they're upset.

If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

I work more with my stomach than my brain.

Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

That's not how the world is run," I replied. "It's run via intangibles—knowledge, networks, and compassion.

I believe that the most important new trend in business is the downfall of the barracudas, sharks, and piranhas, and the ascendancy of nice, smart people—because they are what I call lovecats.

Abba Macarius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

If you ran into an asshole in the morning you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

To "fix" someone's problem, you very often just need to empathically listen to them. Even