Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to someone who doesn't know how to love.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.

Teaching emotional intelligence skills to people with life-threatening illnesses has been shown to reduce the rate of recurrence, shrink recovery times, and lower death rates.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.

I think the ability to emphasize is, in large part, what makes me a man and not a boy.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

You have to play the logic of a character.

If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.

I want to keep my head in the game, my ego low.

I have to manage my emotions.

I would like to see a mandate for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state.

Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.

Someone can intentionally send emotional poison, and if you don't take it personally, you will not eat it. When you don't take the emotional poison, it becomes even worse to the sender, but not in you.

Cognition and emotion are tightly intertwined, which means that the designers must design with both in mind.

Oprah Winfrey, quien indiscutiblemente guía con éxito a millones de personas, explicó en una ocasión que lo que más quiere la gente es que las vean, las escuchen y las comprendan. Esta es la esencia de la empatía.

It's more important to understand people than to forgive them.