Quotes About Emotional intelligence

One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment . . . and I don't believe it's true. . . . I have the impression that thinking is a form of feeling and that feeling is a form of thinking.

No one is a devil if fully heard.

Any references to pregnancy or childbirth are coarse, and should be carefully side-stepped by the truly well-bred, as should intrusive comments on love-affairs.

Perhaps the old saying is true and it is not possible to love and be wise.

Focus on someone else's problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you'll have to live in a world you didn't make up. Horrible thought.

I found myself calculating less and feeling more

Men are overly sensitive to being told what to do. If they are persuaded to understand that they're making you happy by doing more, they'll be a lot more interested than if they're doing it because they're being told.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Perhaps understanding was more important than Love, and perhaps the highest form of understanding was the understanding of oneself, one's motives and desires and capabilities. Constance thought about this but the idea didn't appeal to her much. She dismissed it.

Los niños, en contra de la opinión general de los adultos, no son imbéciles. Son capaces de percibir sentimientos complejos desde muy pequeños.

When your heart speaks, take good notes.

The basic distinctions that are so important to Nonviolent Communication: • requests and demands, • feelings and evaluations, • observations and judgments, • needs and strategies [to meet needs].

In Greek, phren has as its secondary meaning "the mind, as the seat of the intellect or the heart as the seat of the passions.

Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön warns against what she insightfully terms "idiot compassion"—using kindness to avoid conflict when a resounding "no" is required. I completely agree. To preserve our emotional freedom, we must know where to draw the line.

I've actually left a lunch with friends when a man there got enraged with his spouse. His rage hurt me. In situations like that, I am fierce about protecting my energy, so I said to my friends, "Please excuse me. I'm feeling tired," and politely left. It was awkward, but I chose my well-being over "social correctness" and sticking it out.

An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders you easier to drain. Of all the emotional types, empaths are often the most devestated.

When encountering emotional vampires, see what you can learn. It's your choice. You can simply feel tortured, resentful, impotent. Or, as I try to do, ask yourself, "How can this interaction help me grow?

The Stoics think that there are no parts or divisions to the human soul, and that it is all rational. (By the soul they mean the item that makes humans live in a characteristically human way.) Emotions are not blind, non-rational forces which can overcome rational resolve; they are themselves a kind of reason which the person determines to act on.

el rencor o también había inteligencia y talento para algo más que para matar.

Men are much easier to manage once you understand a few basic facts about their nature." "Which are?" Kate prompted. Daphne leaned forward and whispered behind her cupped hand, "They're not as smart as we are, they're not as intuitive as we are, and they certainly don't need to know about fifty percent of what we do.

Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.

You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding.

We believe that one day Emotion AI will be ubiquitous, embedded on chips in our devices, ingrained into technology we use every day at home and at work.

Without insecurities, I think one becomes a little bit of an idiot.