Quotes About Emotional intelligence

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

You can't fix yourself by breaking someone else.

Always be careful to consider others' needs, not just your own. In this way you'll able to maintain happiness and serenity in relationship.

Class is knowing what to say, when it should be said and knowing when you should stop.

You can't follow your heart when it is more confused than your head.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

When someone hurts me, I learn and make sure I don't do the same thing to someone else.

Don't ever use someone's past against them. You're just reminding them of the mistakes they made back then. If you watch their facial expression carefully, then you'll see the hurt in their eyes as they reminisce everything that happened. Never use emotion as a weapon, it strikes deeper than you can imagine.