Quotes About Emotional intelligence

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking about the tiny things that add up to caring human beings.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

The crux is this: you can't be sincerely empathic towards and angry at someone at the same moment. In other words, you can't walk in someone else's shoes and step on their toes at the same time.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

It was starting to scare me a little, how easy I could read his face and what he did and didn't say. That ain't the same as being able to handle him, and I wasn't even pretending I had any kind of grip on what he might do when he was topside, but I was getting to where I knew his madness like it was an old friend.

I knew that look, that very slight hitch in his eyebrow that said he knew I was going to do what I wanted anyway, and he wasn't going to waste his breath on me. I did not care for that look, but it was better than another quarrel.

What I know intellectually doesn't change how I feel emotionally." She

Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.

They might be kind, I thought. They might be sensible and good. They will not be like you. But I did not say it. I knew it would mean nothing to her. I said something - something ordinary and mild, I cannot think what. And after a time she came and kissed my cheek, and then she left me.

Do you want to share a black cab?' Black cabs were an extravagance that Neve couldn't afford, not this far away from payday, but that wasn't the reason why she declined. 'No, thank you. I'm perfectly all right with catching the tube.' 'OK, tube it is,' Max agreed, because he was quite obviously emotionally tone deaf and couldn't sense the huge 'kindly bugger off' vibes that Neve was sure she was emitting.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

a leader in a crisis situation has better odds of success if she can see emotional patterns and make use of different ways to manage them.

Not being able to look folks in the eye in tough situations feels wrong. Would you propose marriage to someone online? Or tell a child her mother was dead in a text message? I worried that what made me good at work wouldn't transfer to a completely online environment.

I practise selective deafness to hurtful remarks.

there's no talking sense to sentiment

An informed mind is not the same thing as an enflamed heart.

Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult. (Prov. 12:16 NIV)

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.