Quotes about Emotional intelligence

Let your past rejection experiences work for you instead of against you by allowing them to help you sense the possible pain behind other people's reactions.

remember not every face-to-face confrontation needs a verbal response

Both Dorothy and the Scarecrow had been greatly interested in the story of the Tin Woodman, and now they knew why he was so anxious to get a new heart. "All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one." "I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Quickly enough we feel and reckon up what we bear at the hands of others, but we reflect not how much others are bearing from us.

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

How, then, she had asked herself, did one know one thing or another thing about people, sealed as they were? Only like a bee, drawn by some sweetness or sharpness in the air intangible to touch or taste, one haunted the dome-shaped hive, ranged the wastes of the air over the countries of the world alone, and then haunted the hives with their murmurs and their stirrings; the hives which were people.