Warren Buffett Quotes

IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

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.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

My strength is that I'm an empath.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

I can access emotions very easily.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

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.

I'm an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I'm strong with others.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

I'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

It's impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.