Quotes About Emotional intelligence

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

This is harder than it first appears: Try in thine own experience, each; that ye speak not for one whole day unkindly of any; that ye say not a harsh word to any, about any; and see what [such] a day would bring to you . . .

1) Learn to see, feel, and curb the impulses to lash out; (2) Learn to make a habit of listening and figuring out what is going on before taking action; and (3) Try harder to hear, to understand, and acknowledge what others are trying to express to you.

Learn to see, feel, and curb the impulses to lash out; (2) Learn to make a habit of listening and figuring out what is going on before taking action; and (3) Try harder to hear, to understand, and acknowledge what others are trying to express to you.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.

Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear logic to achieve ones goals.

Telling your kids to define their identities and behaviour by their feelings is just setting them up to have confusing and difficult lives.

Feelings accompany the unfolding of life in our organisms, whatever one perceives, learns, remembers, imagines, reasons, judges, decides, plans, or mentally creates.

The rise of human cultures should be credited to both conscious feeling and creative intelligence.

Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. So stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person.

Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography

Feel provides an important channel of information.

I want to get a master's degree in... psychology.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart.

I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.