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"Emotional Intelligence is invaluable for business, essential for education, and transformational for personal life."

— Daniel Goleman

"Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths."

— Miguel de Cervantes

"IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership."

— Daniel Goleman

"No doubt emotional intelligence is rarer than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader. You just can't ignore it."

— Jack Welch

"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."

— Sigmund Freud

"The best mechanic in a factory may fail as a foreman for lack of social intelligence."

— Thorndike

"Even if you have the qualifications on paper, a lack of social intelligence could lead to strained or ruined relationships, as well as lost opportunities."

— Will Chou

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

— Charlotte Bront

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

— Paul Boese

"Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them."

— William Blake

"Emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success."

— Daniel Goleman

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us out in marching onward."

— Henry Ford

"75 percent'of careers are derailed for reasons related to emotional competencies, including inability to handle interpersonal problems; unsatisfactory team leadership during times of difficulty or conflict; or inability to adapt to change or elicit trust."

— Center for Creative Leadership

"The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success."

— Robert Kiyosaki

"You'll be able toget the most out of your team if you know how to build relationships with them and bring them into your overall strategic goals."

— Will Chou

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again."

— Og Mandino

"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone'...'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere."

— Robert Greene

"Smart decision-making requires more than the intellect as measured by traditional IQ."

— Daniel Goleman

"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

"In a study of skills that distinguish star performers in every field from entry-level jobs to executive positions, the single most important factor was not IQ, advanced degrees, or technical experience, it was EQ.' Of the competencies required for excellent in performance in the job studies, 67% were emotional competencies."

— Daniel Goleman

"He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future."

— Quevedo

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else: you are the one who gets burned."

— Buddha

"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions."

— John Hancock

"When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed."

— Deepak Chopra

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."

— Henry Ford

"Isolated people have vastly increased rate of premature death from all causes and are 3-5x likelier to die early than people with strong social ties."

— Dean Ornish

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

— Barbara De Angelis

"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."

— Salovey and Mayer

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions."

— Donald Calne

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"People with high EQs master their emotions because they understand them, and they use an extensive vocabulary of feelings to do so."

— Travis Bradberry

"Emotional Intelligence can help people make better decisions."

— Daniel Goleman

"Social and Emotional intelligent is also important"

— Unknown