Emotional Intelligence Development Quotes

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.

If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

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.

Nothing we read can import new or foreign feelings that we don't, in one form or another, already possess.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING directed toward the other person you love. Because if you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love. That is the message of the Buddha.

My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?