EQ, APPLIED: The Real-World Guide to Emotional Intelligence, uses fascinating research, modern examples, and personal stories to illustrate how emotional intelligence works in the real world--and provides a practical set of tools that help you make emotions work for you, instead of against you.

1. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
By Justin Bariso

2. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is defined as a person's ability
to identify emotions (in both themselves and others),
to recognize the powerful effects of those emotions,
and to use that information to inform and guide
behavior. Ever since Daniel Goleman's international
best-seller Emotional Intelligence was released in
1995, interest in the quality has risen dramatically.
The terms emotional intelligence (EI) and emotional
quotient (EQ) may be new, but the concepts
definitely aren't.

3. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
My new book, EQ Applied, is a practical approach
that illustrates just how EQ works--and doesn't work--
in the real world.
Put simply, emotional intelligence is the ability to
make emotions work for you, instead of against you.
In fact, writers and thinkers from various backgrounds
have explored this concept through the years.
Here are 23 of my favorite quotes about emotions
and learning to deal with them:

4. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
1. "I don't want to be at the mercy of my
emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy
them, and to dominate them."
--Oscar Wilde

5. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
2. "One ought to hold on to one's heart;
for if one lets it go, one soon loses control
of the head too."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

6. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
3. "I've learned that people will forget
what you said, people will forget what you
did, but people will never forget how you
made them feel." --Maya Angelou

7. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
4. "Few people are capable of expressing
with equanimity opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming
such opinions."
--Albert Einstein

8. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
5. "Emotion can be the enemy, if you give
into your emotion, you lose yourself. You
must be at one with your emotions,
because the body always follows the
mind."
--Bruce Lee

9. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
6. "The idea that you have to be protected
from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is
what I absolutely do not subscribe to."
--John Cleese

10. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
7. "Feelings can't be ignored, no matter
how unjust or ungrateful they seem."
--Anne Frank

11. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
8. "Tact is the knack of making a point
without making an enemy."
--Isaac Newton

12. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
9. "Everyone must be quick to listen, slow
to speak, slow to anger..."
--The Bible (James 1:19)

13. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
10. "When a man is prey to his emotions,
he is not his own master."
--Baruch Spinoza

14. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
11. "Your emotions are the slaves to your
thoughts, and you are the slave to your
emotions."
--Elizabeth Gilbert

15. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
12. "Feelings are something you have; not
something you are."
--Shannon L. Alder

16. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
13. "Your heart will always go where your
mind wanders."
--Shannon L. Alder

17. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
14. "People who keep stiff upper lips find
that it's damn hard to smile."
--Judith Guest

18. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
15. "How you react emotionally is a choice
in any situation."
--Judith Orloff

19. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
16. "The emotions of man are stirred more
quickly than man's intelligence."
--Oscar Wilde

20. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
17. "It is both a blessing and a curse to feel
everything so very deeply."
--David Jones

21. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
18. "Tears are a form of communication -
like speech - and require a listener."
--Erica Jong

22. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
19. "Our emotional response is driven by
the proximity of events."
--Piyush Shrivastava

23. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
20. "Emotions are not problems to be
solved. They are signals to be interpreted."
--Vironika Tugaleva

24. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
21. "Anger is a legitimate feeling, one
often designed for self-protection."
--Kimberlee Roth

25. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
22. "Some prisons don't require bars to
keep people locked inside. All it takes is
their perception that they belong there."
--Lysa TerKeurst

26. 23 Quotes That Brilliantly
Illustrate The Concept of
Emotional Intelligence
23. "One half of me is a hopeless romantic.
The other half is well... just realistic."
--Faraaz Kazi

27. EQ APPLIED, THE REAL-WORLD GUIDE TO
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
In my new book, EQ, APPLIED: The Real-World Guide to Emotional
Intelligence, uses fascinating research, modern examples, and personal stories
to illustrate how emotional intelligence works in the real world--and provides a
practical set of tools that help you make emotions work for you, instead of
against you.
You'll learn how to:
• Transform your strongest emotions from a destructive force to a power for good
• Use knowledge about the brain and the way it works to help shape your
emotional habits
• Get the most out of the feedback you receive—whether positive or negative
• Deliver feedback in a way that others are likely to benefit from
• Use empathy to help you (and keep it from hurting you)
• Cultivate and maintain deeper, more meaningful relationships
• Protect yourself from those who want to use the principles of influence to harm
or manipulate you and others
Authentic. Balanced. Practical: EQ Applied is the real-world approach to emotional
intelligence you've been searching for.
Book available for purchase via Amazon.com on May 29, 2018.
23 Quotes That Brilliantly Illustrate the Concept of Emotional Intelligence. This article
originally appeared on Inc.