Quotes About Emotional intelligence

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

You know, I'm really bad at apologies. I'm just really bad at 'em.

Ale rozum jest zawsze czym? mizernym wobec uczucia; jest ograniczony jak wszystko, co pozytywne; uczucie jest bez kresu. Rozumowa? tam, gdzie trzeba uczu?, to w?a?ciwo?? ma?ych dusz. Vandenesse

You can tell a lot about a person's character over the phone. Not everything, but a lot. It's not always what they say but what they don't say that's the most telling,

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

To keep yourself from feeling too much anger or hatred against other people... requires a strong heart...

There's a message in the way a person treats you. Hovsep Kazezian www.Hkazezian.com

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

The less a person understands his own feelings, the more he will fall prey to them. The less a person understands the feelings, the responses, and the behavior of others, the more likely he will interact inappropriately with them and therefore fail to secure his proper place in the world.

There is a limit to the development of the intellect but none of that of the heart

The heart is seldom rational - the mind, sometimes.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

He learned by experience that one train of thought left him sad, the other joyful. This was his first reasoning on spiritual matters.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Perhaps the greatest waste of time is getting to know someone.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Having strong yet fluid relational boundaries is like wearing the zipper of our hearts on the inside rather than on the outside of us. Our true self is able to decide when to open our hearts and let someone in, or when we're open to stepping out and mingling. If we're tired or need a little time alone, we can close ourselves up a little bit or zip up entirely to get the rest we need.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

When someone is upset, it's not a good time to bring up your own problems.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

If we hate people it does not hurt them at all... it hurts ourselves.