Quotes About Emotional intelligence

to be fully human is tying together the heart and the head, and by doing this, we can be more aware of the threads that connect us.

Lewis passionately believed that education is not about providing information so much as cultivating "habits of the heart"—producing "men with chests," as he puts it in his book The Abolition of Man, that is, people who not only think as they should but respond as they should, instinctively and emotionally, to the challenges and blessings the world offers to them.

but you're angry. Not with me, because no one could be angry with me, but with others.

we are terrible at reading each other's thoughts. Yet we consistently behave as if we have been endowed with this entirely handsome ability.

We are not rational creatures who feel; we are emotional creatures who rationalize.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

Because if a woman learns to separate what she thinks from how she feels, she has a chance of making the right decision for herself.

If you don't manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you.

Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

It is much more beneficial to your health if you feel your way through life than think your way through life.

Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces And Feelings To Improve Communication And Emotional Life.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy.

She is collecting all the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words and keeping them for herself. "Why are we doing this, Dec?" Because they shouldn't be in there mixed with the good. They like to trick you.

Don't judge a man till you've walked a mile in his shoes.