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"Emotional intelligence is one, the capacity to think intelligently about our emotions and, two, to have our emotions help us learn how to think more intelligently."

     ---  Sigal Barsade, a professor of management at Wharton

"All learning has an emotional base."
-Plato

"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud."
–
Hermann Hesse

(or written out loud)

"You think you can, or you think you can't - either way, you're right."

Henry Ford

"What you do speaks so loud I can't hear what you're saying."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sioux saying,

"If you listen for the whispers you won't have to hear the screams."

"Without understanding, no knowledge; without knowledge, no understanding."

(I think I detect a virtuous cycle.)

"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect.
We can go wrong using our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says is always true."
- D H Lawrence

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Tim Sanders, the chief solutions officer of US internet giant Yahoo spoke at the Yorkshire International Business Convention early in 2004. He urged Yorkshire's business chiefs to become "knowledge-sharing leaders."

"Through faith, employers create a virtuous circle. There's nothing more destructive than the vicious cycle of not trusting employees. The vicious cycle can destroy your business," said Mr Sanders, who went on to give a string of real-life examples of how some of the biggest and best corporate executives used a management system based on "compassion, network and knowledge."

"Empathy is one of the greatest management skills you can build. If you lived your life right then later you can look back on it and enjoy it a second time."

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Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2004 said:

“…a leader's intelligence has to have a strong emotional component. He has to have high levels of self-awareness, maturity and self-control. She must be able to withstand the heat, handle setbacks and, when those lucky moments arise, enjoy success with equal parts of joy and humility. No doubt emotional intelligence is more rare than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader.”

"What we are today comes from thoughts of yesterday,
and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow:
our life is the creation of our mind."

- Buddha