Quotes About Emotional intelligence

I'm on your side, always, she said. But I remember what it was like to be a sixteen-year-old girl. She's as worried as you are about her relationship with Jake. But she's not admitting it, even to herself, because that would wound her pride. So she resents you for speaking the truth. She has constructed a fragile defense around her self-esteem, and you just tear it down. What should I do? Help her build a better fence.

Before you judge someone, imagine what the world looks like through their eyes.

Of all the definitions of "human" provided over the ages—from the "political animal" to the "symbolic animal"—probably the most accurate is the "role-taking animal," the capacity to see not only what one is oneself seeing but to put oneself in the shoes of an other and see the world as that other is seeing it.

dozen multiple intelligences—cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, moral intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, logico-mathematical intelligence, spiritual intelligence, aesthetic intelligence, and so on.

I had my own test, better than Turing's: when a computer could genuinely convince me that it wanted to commit suicide.

If you let your emotions get high, your bargaining power will be low. Make sure you don't negotiate from a position of need when making a deal.

First with the head, then with the heart.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!

Soul and mind are the powers of mankind

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

We say to others only what we need to hear

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature.

You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. Breakthrough

Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.

So, what I suggest you do is pay attention to what you're thinking and pay attention to what you're feeling. Know that these two things dictate the way you live your life. By focusing your attention internally as opposed to externally, you'll be able to be present enough to connect with any other living thing, which will also cause you to take responsibility for your life and how you live it. Will I judge you? Of course not! But I will observe.