Quotes About Emotional intelligence

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

We simply have to learn how to skillfully get out of our own way. Getting out of our own way allows the deep reservoirs of peace and happiness within us to reveal themselves so we may gain more ready access to them.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

My hope is that this book will help us all make those decisions with more facts than emotions, and more awareness than fear.

We build emotional literacy, first, by being able to identify and name our emotions; second, by recognizing the emotional content of voice and facial expression, or body language; and third, by understanding the situations or reactions that produce emotional states.

She's really listening, hearing what you said and asking what it means, digging deeper," says Nili Metuki, design researcher. "She doesn't let things stay unclear, even when they're uncomfortable. Especially when they're uncomfortable

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

I'm stupid. Labeling Sometimes I do things that aren't too smart, but I'm not stupid. It's your fault we have these marital problems. Blaming I need to look at my part of the problem and look for ways I can make the situation better. Your turn: EVENT: Write out the event that is associated with your thoughts and feelings.

ANT Species of ANT Kill the ANT You never listen to me. "Always/Never" Thinking I get frustrated when you don't listen to me, but I know you have listened to me and will again. The boss doesn't like me. Mind Reading I don't know that. Maybe she's just having a bad day. Bosses are people, too. The whole class will laugh at me. Fortune-telling I don't know that. Maybe they'll really like my speech.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy. … They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Anyone can become angry —that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way —this is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nicomachean Ethics

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. HORACE WALPOLE

Benjamin Franklin put it well: "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.

emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood

People with well-developed emotional skills are also more likely to be content and effective in their lives, mastering the habits of mind that foster their own productivity; people who cannot marshal some control over their emotional life fight inner battles that sabotage their ability for focused work and clear thought.