Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Some people have not learned to know what their feelings mean. Some have been trained not to feel much. And some have been trained not to know that they have feelings.

In general, when you respond to verbal abuse, speak firmly and clearly, stand or sit straight and tall, hold your head high, look the abuser in the eye, and breathe deeply, letting your abdomen expand with the intake of air.

You're too sensitive.

The great test of masculinity in our modern era is not going into the woods and eating bugs to prove we can overcome our fear in a bold display of our survival skills; it's learning to protect the women in our lives without trying to control them.

Developing the ability to experience the world through your partner's eyes, while holding on to your own perspective, may be the single most important skill in intimate relationships.

Instead of walling off a conversation and saying you'd rather talk about something else, you bring in a deeper and more comprehensive level of analysis. This highlights your intelligence, but it also highlights your emotional engagement.

Chatter requires a very finely-tuned sense of empathy, conversational techniques, and cultivating a presence – it's not about just going down a checklist of topics. It also requires reading between the lines of what people say, examining body language, and noting patterns of human interaction to different types of stimuli.

Compassion, in an ideal sense, is your ability to put yourself in other people's shoes regardless of what they look like, regardless of what they believe, regardless of whether they believe in God or not, or which god they believe in, and regardless of whether they're male, female, or patriotic. As long as they're human beings, the ideal vision of compassion is being able to feel other people's pain.

Emotional intelligence is knowing and perceiving the emotions you feel and why you feel them. You are able to put a label on your emotional state and find its cause and effect. By extension, emotional intelligence is being able to read other people's emotions accurately and deduce the reasons for them.

When you start thinking, "Why did she say that?" and "What made him do that?" instead of immediately reacting, that's the beginning of your path to emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence will allow you to connect with people on a deeper level because you understand them implicitly without their saying anything. You will just get them. This is what many people interpret as chemistry and rapport, and you will have it in a seemingly effortless manner.

Learn how to read your conversation partner to direct the conversation.

If you want to become a better conversationalist, always understand that you're not engaged in a debate. There is no right or wrong answer. What you're shooting for is to establish an atmosphere of likeability and collaboration. You want the person listening to you and talking to you to like you. That is your end goal, and that's difficult when you are constantly debating, arguing, selling them, or trying to change their minds.

High emotional intelligence is like being able to read someone's mind.

people skills and magnetism are as or more important than the actual skills involved.

Most conflict stems from either an emotional reaction or a fundamental misunderstanding.

Emotional intelligence is when you understand what someone is trying to convey through their words or body language, and you understand what you yourself are conveying to others through the same.

I (Kvothe) started to say something else, but she (Vashet) put her hand over my mouth. "I've said I understand. Stop fighting after you have won.

Sabía muy bien que la crueldad no ayudaba a hacer girar el mundo.

the key is knowing when to fight. Men are full of anger, so they have trouble with this. Women less so.

you might want to admit the possibility that you are impossibly thick when it comes to women.

I see the problem," I said slowly. "I don't seem to have any behavioral filters.

Bárbaros! —dijo enjugándose las lágrimas—. Se me había olvidado lo atrasados que sois. Mi rey poeta también era así. Tardó muchísimo en comprender la verdad: que existe una gran diferencia entre el pene y el corazón.

Una volta tanto mi lasciai andare, senza volermi sentire superiore alla mia felicità, senza volermi guardare dall'alto o essere più intelligente dei miei sentimenti.