Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Most men wanted to tell you what they knew. The route to Wisbech. How to get a log fire going. David made her feel she was the one who knew things. He

Consequently they never learn how to make a compromise or earn respect, they never need to imagine how the world might appear from the point of view of another person, they never truly love and they are never truly loved.

Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:

We are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think

I addressed a remark to him which he acknowledged simply by closing and opening his eyes, making me feel that, the next time I spoke, I ought to make an attempt to find something a trifle less banal to say: though his smile at the same time absolved me from the slightest blame in falling so patently short of his accustomed standards.

Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear and powerful in the midst of emotional "storms." How do they accomplish this? Most of them have a fundamental rule: In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution. Most important, don't sweat the small stuff… and remember, it's all small stuff!

Understanding state is the key to understanding change and achieving excellence. Our behavior is the result of the state we're in.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't life controls you." —ANTHONY ROBBINS

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings." —LORD CHESTERFIELD

The kind of behavior people produce is the result of the state they are in. How they specifically respond out of that state is based on their models of the world

happiness, and trust he needed. "He who knows much about others may be learned, but be who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but be who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.

A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her.

There is so much in a turn of the eye and in the tone given to a word when such things have to be said,—so much more of importance than in the words themselves.

Self-betrayal" 1. An act contrary to what I feel I should do for another is called an act of "self-betrayal." 2. When I betray myself, I begin to see the world in a way that justifies my self-betrayal.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions-that is, to name them and

If you honestly feel resentful against some one, but, having understood the foolishness of fury, intentionally mask your fury under a persuasive tone, your fury will at once begin to abate. You will be led into a rational train of thought; you will see that after all the object of your resentment has a right to exist, and that he is neither a doormat nor a scoundrel, and that anyhow nothing is to be gained, and much is to be lost, by fury. You will see that fury is unworthy of you.

Myers paused, wondering how Indra was taking all this, how it would affect her feelings toward Franklin. She seemed to have got over her initial shock; she was not, thank God, the hysterical type it was so difficult to do anything with.

Las cuestiones emocionales son enemigas del razonamiento claro.

Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)

great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. And life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

I don't know about the people's nature... I know only about people.

Neurosis is no excuse for bad manners.