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Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike. -- Daniel Goleman
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
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
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
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
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence. -- Daniel Goleman
What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence. -- Millard Drexler
What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence, -- Millard Drexler
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people. -- Ray Kurzweil
When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed. -- Deepak Chopra
Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood. -- Daniel Goleman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels. -- Daniel Goleman
Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state. -- Rick Perlstein
I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family, in school, and at work. The real challenge is to show that emotional intelligence matters over-and-above psychological constructs that have been measured for decades like personality and IQ. I believe that emotional intelligence holds this promise. -- Peter Salovey
Emotional intelligence in the work that we do, in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, is about equipping young people with the kinds of skills they need to both identify and manage their emotions, to communicate those emotions effectively, and to resolve conflict nonviolently. So it's a whole set of skills and competencies that, for us, fall under the umbrella of emotional intelligence. -- Linda Lantieri
Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotional intelligence, hone your dreams, negotiate with your shadow, cure your ignorance, shed your pettiness, heighten your drive to look for the best in people, and soften your heart -- even as you always accept yourself for exactly who you are with all of your so-called imperfections. -- Rob Brezsny
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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
Hating' is displaced admiration; a by-product of low emotional intelligence. It originates from the hater's inability to affirm, in your life, the non-manifest desires of their own. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
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
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
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
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
Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal. -- Rick Perlstein
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. -- Audre Lorde
IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership. -- Daniel Goleman
Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling. -- Deepak Chopra
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. -- Dale Carnegie
With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence. -- Bryan Fuller
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
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
My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional. -- Lynn Shelton
You possess an intuitive intelligence so powerful it can help you heal, relieve stress, and find emotional freedom -- Judith Orloff
Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence. -- Ray Kurzweil
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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
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

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