Quotes About Emotional intelligence

It shows that a woman is not really a critic but a penetrator. She does not judge, she understands.

I have become an idiot like Gertrude Stein. That's what love does to intelligent women. They cannot write letters anymore.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.

I was fascinated to hear of the suicide of an octopus, trained for the circus, that had been accustomed to do tricks for rewards of food. When the circus disbanded, the octopus was kept in a tank and no one paid any attention to his tricks. He gradually lost his color (octopuses' states of mind are expressed in their shifting hues) and finally went through his tricks a last time, failed to be rewarded, and used his beak to stab himself so badly that he died.

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

If you're wiser it doesn't make you happier. One of the girls in one of your movies said something like, ' I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

No matter how unjustly you've been treated, if you start fighting fire with fire, you'll get burned.

Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes.

We are masters of the unsaid words,                               but                     slaves of those we let slip out.              Ã¢â'¬â€Winston Churchill

Your capacity to be offended isn't something that I or anyone else needs to respect. It isn't something that you should respect. In fact, it's something you should be on your guard for.

When you find another person annoying, sexually attractive, or inadvertently funny, you are experiencing the percolations of System 1. The heroic efforts you make to conceal these feelings out of politeness are the work of System 2.

Having spent years observing my mind in meditation, I find such sudden transitions from happiness to suffering both fascinating and rather funny—and merely witnessing them goes a long way toward restoring my equanimity. My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again.

I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you.

If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

Più intelligenza avrai, più soffrirai.

to letting the environment dictate how you feel on any given day, it would be like a minor superpower.

The thoughts you allow into your head are the code that programs your mind and body.

relational maturity.

Si, mio caro, mi rendo conto ogni giorno di più di quanto sia sciocco voler valutare gli altri in base a se stessi. E poiché io con me stesso ho tanto da fare, e poiché questo mio cuore è così impetuoso, lascerei volentieri che gli altri andassero per la loro strada, se solo anch'essi mi lasciassero andare per la mia.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame." "?? ???? ?????????? ????? ??????? ???, ??? ?????" (in Russian)

Perché solo quando siamo in grado di profondamente comprendere un sentimento, noi possiamo avere il giusto criterio di parlarne.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.