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Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making.
~ Roy Bennett
Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.
~ T.I.
My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
~ Edith Piaf
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.
~ Daniel Goleman
I don't care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces 'intelligence.
~ Susan Sontag
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
~ Honore de Balzac
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)
~ Patrick Stump
There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind.
~ Michael Beckwith
What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.
~ Kevin Allen
Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.
~ Storm Jameson
The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.
~ Peter James
Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues.
~ Karen Armstrong
IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.
~ Daniel Goleman
Intelligence forbids tears.
~ Doris Lessing
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.
~ James A. Baldwin
If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.
~ Jennifer Nettles
Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.
~ Deepak Chopra
The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.
~ Bruce Pandolfini
My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
~ Tamsin Egerton
When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.
~ Fred D'Aguiar
I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.
~ Tom Heinsohn
I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.
~ Sam Neill
I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.
~ Chuck Klosterman