Quotes About Emotional intelligence

I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje)

Don't let people's compliments go to your head, and don't let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you'll be ruled by what other people think of you.

True peacekeeping is about properly processing the emotions before they get stuffed and rot into something horribly toxic.

It's not bad that I'm vulnerable, but am I displaying a mature form of my vulnerability?

Whenever any kind of relationship conflict arises, my choice is whether to give the other person power to control my emotions.

Let your past rejection experiences work for you instead of against you by allowing them to help you sense the possible pain behind other people's reactions.

remember not every face-to-face confrontation needs a verbal response

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.

We have forgotten how to flex two mental muscles at the same time: the muscle of moral conviction and the muscle of compassion to all regardless of their morality.

If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

A woman should not behave with a man as if she is exclusive or intimate if he is still working through issues with other women. And she should not mistakenly believe that if she listens sympathetically to him, he will become convinced she is the one for him.

Both men and women need to stop offering the method of caring they would prefer and start to learn the different ways their partners think, feel, and react.

1. A man tries to change a woman's feelings when she is upset by becoming Mr. Fix-It and offering solutions to her problems that invalidate her feelings. 2. A woman tries to change a man's behavior when he makes mistakes by becoming the home-improvement committee and offering unsolicited advice or criticism. IN

When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift.

To avoid arguing we need to remember that our partner objects not to what we are saying but to how we are saying it. It takes two to argue, but it only takes one to stop an argument

Reading good novels can make young readers seem more experienced about relationships than they are.

I've done all I want to do about me, already," Jenny told her son. "Now I'm interested in other people.

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

All learning has an emotional base.

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

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.