Quotes About Emotional intelligence

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed.

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.

It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it ?

Here's a tip, Self. Do not argue with a lunatic. Arguing with a lunatic simply ensures that you'll climb into his craziness with him when what you want to do is take a big step back. He

The emotions do not deserve being put into opposition with "intelligence." The emotions are themselves a higher order of intelligence. —O. Hobart Mowrer

As George Santayana pointed out, it is often "wisdom to believe the heart.

You think with your head. You know with your heart.

Maybe one reason I had avoided anger was that like a lot of people I had thought there were only two responses to anger: to deny it or to strike out thoughtlessly. But other responses are possible.

August said, "You know what? You think too much. It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon.

He learned well, and his suffering didn't harden him. It's always a marvel when one's pain doesn't settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead.

but now when I'm reviled, I try to look the other way. It does the world no good to return evil for evil. I try now to return good to them instead.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others."21

It seemed like an original act, the very kindest act of being human, that he listened.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.

But while it's tempting to project onto dolphins all the superpowers we wish we had ourselves, I knew (on an intellectual level, anyway), that these were creatures who have it in them to be cranky and withdrawn and have their own version of a bad day.

I don't care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces 'intelligence.