Quotes About Emotional intelligence

I learned another thing from the hurt my cousin gave me - never to give that kind of hurt to anyone else. My revenge was to change a bad feeling into a good one. If I'm working with you and I sense you're feeling a little insecure, I try to make you feel great. That's how I get rid of my old hurt. If I don't do that, my hurt grows and makes me mean and vengeful. But if hurt can change to kindness - that's something Mama showed me - the world becomes a little less cruel.

As actors, our job is to step into other people's shoes, So our capacity for compassion is like, next level, and that's why it's rare that you find a non-liberal actor.

My job is to show my clients that their anger is rarely someone else's fault. It's their flaw.

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

Seeing how people react to a situation, you can tell a lot.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.

I realised that being sensitive means you can connect to all kinds of people. I think I've learned that it is a gift as well.

The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.

My greatest strength as a person? I guess I get caught in it a lot, but I think it's my ability to put myself in someone else's shoes.

My mother is brilliant but emotional and very much gregarious and connected to people. My father was brilliant but focused and driven and very narrow-casted.

There's times I blow my gasket. One thing I learned is I don't hold any grudges.

If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

Using a gun is a coward's way to hurt someone.