Quotes About Emotional intelligence

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

I've never heard of the wife looking up the mistress to become friends, but I like it.

Our relationship is very good. When Ibra gets annoyed, I prefer not to reply because I know how he can react. I prefer to calmly count to ten.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

Your greatest challenges are never about what other people do, but rather about how you respond. They are about whether you can accept, understand, and thus rise above the emotions that others' actions cause inside you. Spiritual growth is not about you changing the world; it is about going within and changing yourself.

Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Doing something stupid and reckless is not a better proof of your love than doing something measured and powerful.

Seldom can one hate a person if one understand that person.