Quotes about Emotional intelligence

One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.

You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. Breakthrough

How many of us can honestly say that we have plumbed the depths of our minds and hearts? How many of us regularly listen to ourselves with empathy and understanding—in the supportive way that a trusted friend can?

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...

To open the book of another's life requires great care, as the pages must be turned with delicacy and caution -- but it is usually worth the effort.

I had not taken the first step in knowledge; I had not learned to let go with the hands, As still I have not learned to with the heart. And have no wish to with the heart—nor need. That I can see. The mind—is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind— Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.

Memorize a simple strategy: Don't jump to speak, ask questions and listen, watch your anger thermometer and keep the temperature down.

People don't care what you know until they know that you care.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.