Quotes About Emotional intelligence

as human beings we are a lot more sophisticated about each other than we are about the abstract world.

Gottman is far more selective. He has found that he can find out much of what he needs to know just by focusing on what he calls the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

to succeed in the world he could not be just a dog whisperer. He needed to be a people whisperer.

The human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts

Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

The best decisions are often those made from the creative part of your mind and not the emotional part of your heart.

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

I like spending time with healthy people whose brains are turned on.

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

Ahora sabes por qué razón es inútil llorar. Tus lágrimas no se llevan tus penas, sino que alimentan la alegría de otros. Por eso has de aprender a tragártelas.

She didn't understand people who thrived on argument and being right all the time. Her mother was that way, and what did that get her? Nothing but unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and anger.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

He observed confusion and chaos, which I call living by one's emotions instead of one's mind.

Patients weep when they discover they are their own victimizers and not the victim of others. They weep when they discover they are responsible for their own suffering.