Quotes tagged ‘Emotional Intelligence’

“There's several guys that could be the face of the NFL...Lamar [Jackson], who was the unanimous MVP last night, he had one of the best seasons of all time as a quarterback position. And, so, there's guys like that it seems like every single year. A lot of young quarterbacks, still a lot of veteran g…”

— Patrick Mahomes, inc.com

“People who are controlled by their emotions typically have something in common: they tend to only do what feels most comfortable. In other words, their emotions are organized into feels good and feels bad, not feels good or does good.”

— Brianna Wiest, forbes.com

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger th…”

— Osho, amazon.com

“So be authentic when you feel angry toward your lover or your beloved. Be authentic while you are in anger, and then with no repression, when the moment of love will come, when the mind will move to the other extreme, you will have a spontaneous flow. So with mind, take fighting as part of it. It is…”

— Osho, amazon.com

“Adulthood is overrated; maturity is underrated.”

— Mike D, vulture.com

“We don’t put enough emphasis on emotional intelligence and it’s left people unable to figure out how to handle their own.”

— Sam Sykes, twitter.com

“In the book world, we often talk about the power of racial inclusion — and in this respect we’re beginning to see a real shift in the field — but many other facets of diversity remain in the shadows. For instance, an uncomfortable number of children out there right now are crouched beneath a metapho…”

— Matt De La Pena, time.com

“Happy people are not people who 'feel good' all the time; they are the people who are able to be guided by their negative emotions rather than paralyzed by them.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

“The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to liv…”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

“What makes people difficult and dooms relationships is almost never the people involved. It’s what we are trying to do with them. Inviting someone to marry you is really not a very kind thing to do to someone you love, because it’s going to drag the beloved into a range of really rather unpleasant a…”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

“In Haruki Murakami’s outstanding 1987 novel, Norwegian Wood, we are taken through every nuance in the emotions of unrequited or doomed love. What is ignored, as it almost always is in art, is the business of sharing a life with someone who isn’t married to someone else, distant, dying or out of reac…”

— Alain de Botton, ft.com