Quotes About Emotional intelligence

No sabía emplear con ellos más que tres medios inútiles siempre y frecuentemente perniciosos con los niños: el sentimiento, los razonamientos y el enojo.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt.

Occasionally [Donald Trump] says things that are too strong and upsets people, and I think he'll work to do better on that.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

I do believe I have certain strengths as a female CEO, such as having another level of awareness through emotional intelligence.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

I feel like I want people to... I guess not be as judgemental of situations because they might not know the full story. Just to try to be nice about other people's struggles and be understanding and not judge people based on their circumstances.

I'm a happy person. Sometimes, I have to make a conscious effort to stay happy. See, my predispositions are - as opposed to what you see - I'm actually quite a sensitive person, very empathetic, very emotional... Very impulsive.

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the whole picture?...having certain kinds of smarts didn't necessarily make him smart, he'd come to figure. He seemed to have blind spots. His heart was one.

While this aspect of self-awareness is no doubt useful, a more consequential side concerns understanding how you affect others and, in turn, what others think of you. As the poet Maya Angelou noted, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them." In that sense, self-awareness is really about other-awareness, and people with higher EQs are better able to understand how their actions affect and are perceived by others.