Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Tab's mom said that when people reached out to hurt your feelings, it was because they secretly felt they deserved to be talked to that way. She said that they had 'long, hard roads ahead' and that you should just wish them well.

A good listener is not only one who processes the spoken word and the meaning behind the words accurately, but one who makes the speaker feel valued by encouraging him to expand on his ideas and feelings. A good listener touches the lives of those to whom he listens.

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Vince replied: "If you meant that as a joke, I now have a better understanding of where you were coming from. (understanding) And, my understanding is that your idea of joking is to call someone out in front of other people." Mark shrugged and laughed uneasily.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

You have the power to change anything, because you are the one who chooses your thoughts and you are the one who feels your feelings.

MARCI SHIMOFF AUTHOR, INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER, AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER It's impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you imagine how exhausted you'd feel trying to control all sixty thousand of those thoughts? Fortunately there's an easier way, and it's our feelings. Our feelings let us know what we're thinking.

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it's impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.

Everything is mental

On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they'd given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It's not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world's. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

Calm down, Horus said. Don't tell me to calm down! Bast frowned. I didn't. Talking to him! I pointed at my forehead.

I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.

Look, Percy, I'm not as smart as Annabeth. I'm not as brave as you. But I'm pretty good at reading emotions. You're glad your dad is alive. You feel good that he's claimed you, and part of you wants to make him proud. That's why you mailed Medusa's head to Olympus. You wanted him to notice what you'd done.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

Feelings are not always true or logical. In fact, resentment makes us act and think in foolish ways. The psalmist admitted, "When my thoughts were bitter and my feelings were hurt, I was as stupid as an animal."14 We all act beastly when hurt.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

Never hate your enemies; it affects your judgment.

People who aren't as exuberant as you are get really irritated with you.

That's personal?" "Sometimes, with you, I think 'Would you like fries with that?' is too personal.

You never know what you're missing when you run away from a conversation.