Quotes About Emotional intelligence

There are only two things to be done when a general is angry: One is to get behind the furniture and pretend one is not there; the other is to distract his mind.

more information on emotional intelligence, I highly recommend Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Robbins.

If she replies, then it's okay to talk to her. If she just smiles, then move on and remember IT'S NO BIG DEAL, or you

She rarely lets me off the hook, holding me to a different standard of emotional intelligence than the other men in her life - even my Brothers. She allows them to behave like Gary, docilely going about their lives, content and happy and completely oblivious to the sticky, ugly things just a few inches below the surface of everything.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

Avery had sixth and seventh and eighth senses and could tell more from the way someone stood or said see you later than Mel could if she stole the person's diary and read it cover to cover.

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

Making Compassionate Decisions: The Role of Empathy in Decision Making READING TIME: 19 MINUTES "The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don't do things that hurt people.

Then there are people who do the opposite, who are able to imagine how others must feel, and make sure that they don't do things that hurt people.

Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.

is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

Tommy, though. Smart as hell, he could think himself out of any hole, but then would crawl back into it and sit there. It was like he chose the shit end of the stick, so nobody else would get it. A hard thing to watch.

be friendly. 'I'm not totally without a brain, Sasha. Of course

He called you. You're the one who insists on carrying a phone." The moment it came out, he regretted it. When Delilah was pissed, there was no winning move. Your only option was to try to find a way not to play.

There are people who need people to need them. The reason you don't understand is because you're not one of those people. You'd use me and then toss me away like a paper bag if that's what it came down to. God fucked you, my friend. You're just smart enough so it would hurt you to do that, and just hard enough so you'd go ahead and do it anyway. You wouldn't be able to help yourself.

At a meeting of the National Security Council on March 4, 1953, Eisenhower wondered aloud why it wasn't possible "to get some of the people in these downtrodden countries to like us instead of hating us.

The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.

When I look at those I want to forgive, I strive to not see them in evil terms, but to find the compassionate narrative behind their hurtful actions against me.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.