Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Be comfortable in your own skin. Comfort and discomfort are contagious.

We should not always discuss whether or not a player is angry.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

If I had a row with my husband, it's not going to work my saying, 'Right, if you don't do what I want, I'm going to walk out.' It doesn't work on any level. What you do is you go in and you say, 'I have a problem. You have a problem. Let's try and sort this out together.' You don't come to an agreement with people who you're falling out with badly.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.

If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the situation, anger or other things, disarm the situation in some way, and you can use different techniques to do that.

As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

Mood-aware technologies would make personalized recommendations and encourage people to do things differently, better, or faster.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.

Stand-up comedians know how to walk into a room, even if you're not performing, just read the temperature of a room, and can easily sort of tell what's going on or what people are sort of feeling in the room, and it allows you to sort of approach people.

Studies have indicated that the tone of voice may be more important than any other element in our response.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

The size of an investor's brain is less important than his ability to detach the brain from the emotions.

Robert Galbraith

Men only give you what they give you...when they know they can't give you what you want.

You choose to let things bother you. You can just as easily choose not to notice the irritating offender, to consider the matter trivial and unworthy of your interest. That is the powerful move. What you do not react to cannot drag you down in a futile engagement. Your pride is not involved. The best lesson you can teach an irritating gnat is to consign it to oblivion by ignoring it.

T]he best bosses master the fine art of emotional detachment. They learn to forgive people who lash out at them... and they learn to forgive themselves, too.

Michael told me that he designs the "how" part of his actions "with the other person's point of view in mind." Even when breaking off with an asshole, he works to "convey the truth in respectful and empathetic ways.