Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Whenever someone does you a wrong or speaks ill of you, remember that he is doing what he thinks is proper. He can't possibly be guided by what appears right to you, but only by what appears right to him. So if he sees things wrongly, he is the one who is hurt, because he is the one who has been deceived. . . . Starting from this reasoning, you will be mild toward whoever insults you. Say each time, "So it seemed to him." Epictetus, Enchiridion

Because Miss Jenkins believes in learned behavior instead of rational thought. What we should be taught is compassionate response.

A perfect matching between a man and a woman starts with a fight between them.

will never understand why the Internet seems to take away the basic humanity of most people, and allows — no, enables — them to say things that they'd never say to another person face to face.

Sana kar?? büyük bir sevgi besleyen, sana yard?m etmeye haz?r olan büyük adam? toplumsal ya?amdan ç?karan?n kendin oldu?unu göremiyorsun küçük adam.

when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.

Daniel Kahneman

Keep in mind that everyone is doing the best they possibly can and realize that if they knew better, they'd do better—therefore, be gentle.

If the goal of science is to make us feel awkward and ignorant in the presence of things we once understood perfectly well, then psychology has succeeded above all others.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

In the end, what's most meaningful is creating positive, uplifting outcomes for human experiences and human relationships. Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Thich Nhat Hanh says that he was inspired to write the poem in 1976 when he first heard about the rape and suicide of the twelve-year-old girl spoken of in the poem. "I learned," he says, "after meditating for several hours that I could not just take sides against the pirate. I saw that if I had been born in his village and brought up under the same conditions, I would be exactly like him. Taking sides is too easy" (Nhat Hanh, 1993, p. 107).

Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off.

Awareness is good, but without skills and ability tied to that awareness, all you have is anxiety. —Tony Blauer

Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.

The key to really learning how to deal with difficult people is to understand that it is OK to not understand why they are the way they are.

We shouldn't make decisions based on feelings alone but rather should make decisions based on creating a positive difference for the future. If it's a good, logical move, or even if it simply interests you, commit to starting and taking it one step at a time. Get started, because the passion you're looking for may be just a few steps away. Passion FOLLOWS commitment, not the other way around.

Getting your feelings hurt is not an offense. Feeling ignorant around someone is not an offense. Being made angry is not an offense.

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.

Shut up! Do you think we're morons?" Michael kept his expression blank. Oh how badly he wanted to say "Yup.

It saddens me how little you grasp," the woman responded. "Truly.

The intellectual normally values reason above all, Dover demonstrates that reason divorced from emotion becomes cold, clinical and ahuman.

Interestingly, one of the most important times to listen well is when you disagree with the message, especially as it relates to how we affect others.