Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

She crammed so much knowledge into her head to alleviate the weight in her heart

Here's a man ready to chop another man's self-esteem to pieces with an axe, yet he cries out in pain when his own is pricked with a needle.

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

Everyone should know exactly what everyone else is thinking and then people wouldn't hurt each other so much.

Seeing has little to do with opening your eyes; it's what you feel inside that counts, it's what you know without anyone telling you.

She had the ability to know what people were thinking, and therefore understood that boys who were rude were usually fearful and that quiet girls often had a lot to say.

I thought perhaps it was more important to listen than to be heard.

Hesse, like so many gifted children, was so difficult for his parents to bear not despite but because of his inner riches. Often a child's very gifts (his great intensity of feeling, depth of experience, curiosity, intelligence, quickness—and his ability to be critical) will confront his parents with conflicts that they have long sought to keep at bay by means of rules and regulations.

It is a way of saying you must not live too much in your head. It is a way of reminding you to stay in your emotions, no matter how nutty they are; it is a way of saying, also, that craziness has value.

He is a very sensitive soul who hears what isn't said as clearly as what is.

a very sensitive soul who hears what isn't said as clearly as what is.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor

Kids can tell when teachers are trying," Collin said. "It's like how dogs smell fear.

It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself.

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

But there's so much to feel sorry for in the world. Can't waste too much on folk who act like pricks.

Warning: when feelings become the means of thinking, or if we cannot think greater than how we feel, we can never change. To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self.

The brain thinks, but the heart knows.

When feelings have become the means of thinking in this manner—or we can't think greater than how we feel—then we're in the program. Our thinking is how we feel, and our feelings are how we think.

Just as thoughts are the language of the brain, feelings are the language of the body. And how you think and how you feel create a state of being.

Si los conocimientos son para la mente y las experiencias para el cuerpo, cuando aplicas los conocimientos y creas una experiencia nueva, le enseñas al cuerpo lo que la mente ha aprendido intelectualmente. Los conocimientos sin la experiencia no son más que filosofía; la experiencia sin conocimientos no es más que ignorancia. Existe una progresión que debe darse. Tienes que adquirir conocimientos y vivirlos, aceptarlos emocionalmente.

if you can't think greater than how you feel, this thinking-feeling loop keeps you anchored to your past and creates a constant state of being. This is how the body becomes the mind—or in time, how your thoughts run you and your feelings own you.