Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Gut is many times more important than brain.

Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships.

Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

A supportive environment and attitude will help our children learn at home. Children are more emotional than cognitive—that is, they remember feelings more readily than they do facts. This means that your children remember how they felt in a particular situation much more easily than they recall the details of the event. For instance, a child listening to a story will remember exactly how she felt long after she forgets the lesson.

An ancient sage once said, "A soft answer turns away anger." When your spouse is angry and upset and lashing out words of heat, if you choose to be loving, you will not reciprocate with additional heat but with a soft voice.

When your spouse is angry and upset and lashing out words of heat, if you choose to be loving, you will not reciprocate with additional heat but with a soft voice. You will receive what he is saying as information about his emotional feelings. You will let him tell you of his hurt, anger, and perception of events. You will seek to put yourself in his shoes and see the event through his eyes and then express softly and kindly your understanding of why he feels that way.

Learning to listen may be as difficult as learning a foreign language, but learn we must, if we want to communicate love. That

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. WILL ROGERS

responses from a loving heart diffuse the most explosive situations. — Jeanette Gardner Littleton

Sometimes love means counting to ten more than once. — Jim Zabloski

I'm trying to learn to be on my best behavior with those I love the most.

The greatest enemy of encouraging our children is anger. The more anger the parent harbors, the more anger the parent will dump on the children. The result will be children who are both anti-authority and anti-parent. This naturally means that a thoughtful parent will do all in his or her power to assuage anger—to keep it to a minimum and to handle it maturely.

A gentle answer turns away wrath."2 The volume of a parent's voice has great influence over a child's reaction to what the parent says. It takes practice to speak softly, but we can all learn how to do it. Also, when we are feeling tense with our children, we can learn to speak calmly, asking questions whenever possible, rather than issuing commands.

Many children go to school ill-prepared to learn because they are not emotionally ready to learn. Children need to reach appropriate emotional levels of maturity before they are able to learn effectively at their age level. Simply sending a child to a better school or changing teachers is not the answer. We must make sure our children are emotionally ready to learn. (See

An ancient sage once said, "A soft answer turns away anger.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotions.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

If I really care for you, if I try to think myself into your position and orientation, then the world is bettered by my effort at understanding and comprehension. If you respond to my effort by trying to extend the same sympathy and understanding to others in turn, then the betterment of the world has been minutely but significantly extended. We want people to feel with us, more than to act for us.

None knows the weight of another's burthen.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

I have learnt that women are superior beings. They have a higher threshold of pain and are more understanding and accepting than men. Also, if you listen to them, you'll understand them better.