Quotes About Emotional intelligence

These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right thing and the exuberant kid who loves a good laugh. Both sides are sincere, and both are necessary, for Spielberg knows he can't feel good about himself unless everyone else feels the same way.

Grant that I may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

I'm a brainiac with limited social skills, as you can probably see.

Think with your head and not your heart. Love with your heart and not your head.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.…We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

When a man close to sixty decides to break with a young woman whom he loves, and who loves him, what would you call it? — Damned stupidity, sir. — Yes, damned stupidity; in other words, 'good sense'.

When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

I would disagree with fight or flight. That leaves no room for compromise and understanding.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Giving someone the truth when they don't want it is a sort of emotional violence.

People fight over technology in ways they never would face-to-face because they can say their version of events without getting immediate feedback that might challenge it. It allows people to throw more intense self-righteous temper tantrums.

You need a heart and a certain amount of knowledge to go further than other people.

FEELING is so different from KNOWING. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

It was her experience that there were different kinds of people in the world; those who got kicked by life and kicked back, those who were kicked and turned to kick someone else, and those who were kicked and kicked themselves for it. She admired those who kicked back, and could live with those who kicked themselves, but Eshe had no time for those who were kicked and turned around and kicked someone else.

Or even when we determine that people are truly intending to encroach on us, we may realize that, for one reason or another, it is not in our best interests to respond to that imposition with anger.

There was nothing wrong with being understanding and sympathetic. It had been instilled in him all his life... Be a good Christian, son. Put others needs before your own. It had been so instilled in him, in fact, that once he was away from home, he'd had to learn it was also okay to speak about your own needs and say what you wanted, too. The trick was to somehow find a balance between the two.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point.

Le cæur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

I don't understand ypur feelings. I'm trying to, but I don't. It must be extremly unpleasant to have feelings.

There is no use in God's earth being upset by the things that other people do, only what you do yourself.

Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.