Top 100 Quotes About Emotional Intelligence
#1. Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.
George Steinbrenner
#3. Emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success.
Daniel Goleman
#4. When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.
Deepak Chopra
#5. My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman
#6. Developing emotional intelligence is one way to protect yourself from damaging relationships. Emotional intelligence is a science that has been studied and researched for over a decade. According to the theories, mutual respect and effective communication are key.
Liz Miller
#7. Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived.
Rick Perlstein
#8. The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
Antony Beevor
#9. I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.
Christine Ebersole
#10. Teaching emotional intelligence skills to people with life-threatening illnesses has been shown to reduce the rate of recurrence, shrink recovery times, and lower death rates.
Travis Bradberry
#11. Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer
#12. As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.
Amit Ray
#13. My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
Tamsin Egerton
#14. Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.
Daniel Goleman
#15. When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
Daniel Goleman
#16. I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
Joan Cusack
#17. I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.
John Mackey
#18. Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.
Deepak Chopra
#19. Since emotional intelligence is learned rather than inherited, it can be improved.
Lynn Clark
#20. Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
Daniel Goleman
#21. There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#22. What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
Millard Drexler
#23. Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.
Travis Bradberry
#24. A great deal of intellectual intelligence depends on emotional intelligence.
Michael Gurian
#25. Intellectual intelligence +Emotional intelligence + Spiritual intelligence =
Extraordinary intelligence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman
#27. Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
Daniel Goleman
#28. The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.
Robert Kiyosaki
#29. People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.
Travis Bradberry
#30. Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work ... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.
Warren G. Bennis
#31. Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.
Ray Kurzweil
#32. But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
Daniel Goleman
#33. I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.
Howard Gardner
#34. Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.
Daniel Goleman
#35. 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 the emotional intelligence that also
matters immensely for our personal destiny.
Daniel Goleman
#36. In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?
Susan Cain
#37. Life is a balance between emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) and intelligence quotient (IQ).
Amit Ray
#38. My particular interest area is working in issues of emotional literacy. What I see of the way that we educate boys and more than that, the way we socialize boys within their families and then in schools to me is tantamount to just removing any element of emotional intelligence from them.
John Amaechi
#39. You can manifest the life you truly want with clear intention, emotional intelligence and imagination ... like it or not, your life is what you have chosen.
Gregg Braden
#40. Intellectual intelligence +creative intelligence + emotional intelligence = Great intelligence
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.
Peter Salovey
#42. What are dogs thinking?" the grand conclusion was this: they're thinking about what we're thinking. The dog-human relationship was not one-sided. With their high degree of social and emotional intelligence, dogs reciprocated our feelings toward them. They truly are First Friend.
Gregory Berns
#43. Pangram: Emotional intelligence skills (EQ) help kids do extremely well in their adult jobs, love life, and other life zones.
Rebecca Rose Orton
#44. Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.
Daniel Goleman
#45. Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.
Polly Young-Eisendrath
#46. If you can rightly build your emotional intelligence and holistically develop yourself, people can hurt you but you won't be hurted.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#47. IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership.
Daniel Goleman
#48. By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
Ray Kurzweil
#49. Admittedly, most high school guys lack emotional intelligence. They develop it later in life."
I smiled. "Are you telling me guys are dumb?
Heather Davis
#50. Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ - Cultural Intelligence.
Julia Middleton
#51. It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.
David Caruso
#52. What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.
Kevin Allen
#53. The workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman
#54. Optimal sculpting of key neural networks through healthy early relationships allows us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate our emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize our intellectual and emotional intelligence in moment-to-moment
Louis Cozolino
#55. Balance The Stress Factor The Beauty of Mental Space Emotional Intelligence Take A Breath Negative Emotions Time and Priorities Boundaries A Culture of Wellness
Sharon Salzberg
#56. The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman
#57. By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.
Doc Childre
#58. You possess an intuitive intelligence so powerful it can
help you heal, relieve stress, and find emotional freedom
Judith Orloff
#59. We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?
Erin Gray
#60. Emotional quotient is far more important than intelligence quotient. We live with people, not with math problems.
Saru Singhal
#61. An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain.
Frederick Dodson
#62. To successfully gain a hostage's safe release, a negotiator had to penetrate the hostage-taker's motives, state of mind, intelligence, and emotional strengths and weaknesses. The negotiator played the role of bully, conciliator, enforcer, savior, confessor, instigator, and
Chris Voss
#63. Emotions can get in the way or get you on the way
Mavis Mazhura
#64. Emotional self-control
delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
Daniel Goleman
#65. If you keep running away from yourself then be warned that love, joy, peace and fulfillment will keep running away from you!
Maddy Malhotra
#66. I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.
William Eckhardt
#67. Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.
Clyde DeSouza
#68. Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action.
Susan Oakey-Baker
#69. It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.
Clyde DeSouza
#70. If you fail to know how to move with people without emotional discipline, you shall surely become the color of their emotions whenever they go beyond the boundaries of their emotions to display the real and true color of their emotions
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#71. The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
Fernando Pessoa
#73. When you have an open mind and you're flexible....not married to your beliefs, you can see clearly because you're able to feel and remain neutral at the same time.
You're curious.
Dana Gore
#74. A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.
Ray Kurzweil
#75. Running a marathon with a backpack is tough and may hinder you from winning the race. Don't let the baggage from your past - heavy with fear, guilt, and anger - slow you down.
Maddy Malhotra
#77. People treating their minds like bin, by keeping negative emotions for example jealousy and hatred, cannot experience happiness and peace.
Hina Hashmi
#78. The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).
Robert Anton Wilson
#80. Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is with silence in his most tempting moment is truly a matured person.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#81. I've always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.
Carla H. Krueger
#82. it is my firm belief that in life, you get, what you give!
Jeffrey Chatham
#83. You can't hack your destiny, brute force ... you need a back door, a side channel into Life.
Clyde DeSouza
#84. The key to achieving desired results and gaining freedom from unwanted feelings lies within you.
Maddy Malhotra
#85. What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.
Mirra Komarovsky
#86. It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.
Wayde Goodall
#87. In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.
Peter David
#88. Believe in what makes you Healthy, because everything else is just garbage.
Gary Hopkins
#89. Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and
place.
Oli Anderson
#90. The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.
Victor Sperandeo
#91. Emotional health is more important than a fit body. Unknowingly most of us focus on the latter hence the lack of inner-happiness, peace, love and fulfillment.
Maddy Malhotra
#92. A lack of emotional engagement in the affair affirms higher credibility.
Pawan Mishra
#93. Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They're there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.
T.K. Coleman
#94. When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.
Fred D'Aguiar
#95. The brain is your emotional cockpit. Lots of buttons and levers. Best to learn how to steer responsibly.
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#96. Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts.
Frederick Dodson
#98. The first thing I check once I'm inside a story is the emotional weather. Is there a storm coming? What's the temperature, and how powerful are the winds? The difference between walking on water and sliding one's ass across slick ice is only a matter of degree.
Bob Thurber
#99. Be strong. Overflow with emotional and intellectual energy, and you will spread your intelligence, your love, your energy of action broadcast among others! This is what all moral teaching comes to.
Pyotr Kropotkin
#100. All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.
Roshan Sharma
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