Quotes About Emotional intelligence

A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.

Someone outside of you does not know if your chosen thought of anger is an improvement for you; only you know—by the relief that you feel— the appropriateness of any thought. Until you decide that you are going to guide yourself by the way you feel, you can make no steady progress toward your own desires.

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

If we long to save the whole world but we can't deal with our own family and friends, something has gone wrong in our understanding of what it means to be human.

Here's my personal definition of a Buddhist: someone who prioritizes cultivating her relationship to her own heartmind—and her relationship to other sentient beings—above whatever else she might achieve in life.

In most cases, the truth is a blade that does not need to be sharpened, and we almost never need to twist the knife. Because as a listener we can empathize with the fear that what we hear might hurt, we can also work to apply gentleness when speaking. I

Within the realm of mental reactions, when you know what is yours and what is someone else's, it makes it easier to help another human being, because you no longer take their confusion so personally.

Inhabiting a human nervous system is kind of like living in a house where the doorbell and the burglar alarm make exactly the same sound. Because

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

A woman should love with her mind. Let men love with their hearts.

If we rush ceaselessly through disconnected activities without checking in on our moods or motives, we can lose track of ourselves; in a sense, we lose the ability to experience our experiences. A

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

Being a great horseman does not rely on physical strength but more on the mind and sensibility.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

I hope that all the people who work with me remember me as a human being.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

Don't think of him as a Republican. Think of him as the man I love, and if that doesn't work, think of him as the man who can crush you.

If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.

People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

If something becomes mean-spirited and hurtful, it's not funny.