Quotes About Intelligence

In short, out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.

Academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. The brightest among us can founder on the shoals of unbridled passions and unruly impulses; people with high IQs can be stunningly poor pilots of their private lives.

We do not compete in our careers with people who lack the requisite intelligence to enter and stay in our field—but rather against the much smaller group of those who have managed to jump the hurdles of schooling, entry exams, and other cognitive challenges to get into the field in the first place.

And that is the problem: academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil—or opportunity—life's vicissitudes bring. Yet even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities, ignoring emotional intelligence, a set of traits—some might call it character—that also matters immensely for our personal destiny.

practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships.

people with high IQs can be stunningly poor pilots of their private lives.

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the workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence.

emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success.

What factors are at play, for example, when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well? I would argue that the difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence

De todas las dimensiones de la inteligencia emocional, la empatía es la que se reconoce con mayor facilidad.

The journey's end is to understand what it means—and how—to bring intelligence to emotion. This understanding itself can help to some degree; bringing cognizance to the realm of feeling has an effect something like the impact of an observer at the quantum level in physics, altering what is being observed.

emotional intelligence counts more than IQ or expertise

Teamwork, open lines of communication, cooperation, listening, and speaking one's mind—rudiments of social intelligence

las personas muy inteligentes pueden hacer cosas muy estúpidas.

Los CEO son contratados por su capacidad intelectual y su experiencia comercial y despedidos por su falta de inteligencia emocional».

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

selection focuses almost exclusively on intellectual abilities, emotional intelligence carries much more weight than IQ in determining who emerges as a leader.

practical intelligence is rarely the main factor in a star's outstanding job performance.

el estrés atonta a la gente».

Todos somos más inteligentes que cualquiera de nosotros aisladamente considerado».

dotar de inteligencia a la emoción

In The Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle's philosophical enquiry into virtue, character, and the good life, his challenge is to manage our emotional life with intelligence. Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. But they can easily go awry, and do so all too often. As Aristotle saw, the problem is not with emotionality, but with the appropriateness of emotion and its expression.

A consciência de nós mesmos e dos outros, e a sua aplicação na gestão do nosso mundo interior e das nossas relações, são a essência da inteligência emocional.