Quotes on Emotional Intelligence

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

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.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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.

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.

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.

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

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 have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige,_x000D_ or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on_x000D_ academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also_x000D_ matters immensely for our personal destiny.

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.