Salovey Emotional Intelligence Quotes & Sayings

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God. — Timothy Keller

Be honest about your joy. — Rob Bell

Why did you buy me?"
He leaned back, steepling his fingers. "I didn't. You were a gift. An unwanted gift." His lips twitched. "A bribe, if you will. — Pepper Winters

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me. — Luke Bryan

You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster. — Vincent Kartheiser

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. — Oscar Wilde

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

The power and the danger of magic lie in the people who believe it. — Diana Gabaldon

I have gone to war and now I can issue my complaint. I can sit on my porch and complain all day. And you must listen. Some of you will say to me: You signed the contract, you crying bitch, and you fought in a war because of your signature, no one held a gun to your head. This is true, but because I signed the contract and fulfilled my obligation to fight one of America's wars, I am entitled to speak, to say, I belong to a fucked situation. — Anthony Swofford

Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well. — Martin Cooper

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit. — Rebecca West

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

The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath. — John Marsden

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. — Donald Calne

Simply beautiful! David Brazzeal takes the hospitality traditions of the French and the Brazilians and stirs in spiritual disciplines and alternative worship practices for a book on prayer unlike anything you've read before. He reminds us that time with God is a rich and delicious banquet that we share together, and not a drive-thru fast food meal we eat alone. Nourishing and indulgent. — Michael Frost

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. — Albert Einstein