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Some EQ Quotes

Question	Quote	Source
What is EQ?
	"Emotional Intelligence is a way of recognizing, understanding, and choosing how we think, feel, and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It defines how and what we learn; it allows us to set priorities; it drives many of our daily actions."	Freedman et al. Handle With Care: Emotional Intelligence Activity Book, Introduction, 1997/1998
	"Emotional intelligence is the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection, and influence."	Dr. Robert K. Cooper Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations, 1996, page xiii

Question	Quote	Source
What is Self-Science?
	"Self-Science is designed to build emotional intelligence and to develop a learning community which fosters respect, responsibility and resiliency."	McCown et al. Self-Science: The Emotional Intelligence Curriculum, Outcomes, page 2
	"Self-Science is a process to teach skills and concepts -- not a series of isolated activities."	McCown et al. Self-Science: The Emotional Intelligence Curriculum, Preface, page viii
	"Self-Science is a pioneer, an early harbinger of an idea that is spreading to schools coast to coast.... A list of the contents of Self-Science is an almost point-for point match with the ingredients of emotional intelligence--and with the core skills recommended as primary prevention for the range of pitfalls threatening children.... Were he alive today, Aristotle, so concerned with emotional skillfulness, might well approve. [Self-Science] is a model for the teaching of emotional intelligence."	Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence
	"Self-Science is an elementary school curriculum that fuses emotional and cognitive learning to provide students with vital tools for managing conflict, expressing themselves, and living with respect, responsibility, and resiliency. The curriculum includes 54 lessons for a two-year program that builds emotional skills and leads to violence prevention."	Six Seconds, Non-Profit Organization

Question	Quote	Source
What is the role of EQ in learning?
	"Like all learning, the development of emotional intelligence comes from building new patterns in the brain. These new patterns develop when we have experiences that we can link to background knowledge. The learning is integrated by experiencing cause and effect, and through practice."	Freedman et al. Handle With Care: Emotional Intelligence Activity Book, Teaching & Learning Emotional Intelligence, page 8, 1997/1998
	"The 'emotionally safe' classroom is logically a classroom where more learning can take place."	John Steinberg EQ Today, Winter 1998
	"When kids remember, they connect information, when and where they learned it, and how they felt as they were being exposed to it."	Dr. Maurice Elias Emotionally Intelligent Parenting EQ Today, Winter 1999
	"It is essential for students to recognize that they have choice about their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Generally, it is hardest for them to accept that they have this choice. Only from this understanding, though, can they learn real accountability."	Karen McCown

Question	Quote	Source
What are some benefits of EQ?
	"In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships."	John Gottman, Ph. D. Author, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, p. 20
	"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we have a clear picture of it."	Spinoza
	"There is no thinking without feeling and no feeling without thinking." "The more conscious one is of what one is experiencing, the more learning is possible." "Experiencing one's self in a conscious manner--that is, gaining self-knowledge--is an integral part of learning."	McCown et al. Self-Science: The Emotional Intelligence Curriculum, Self-Science Basic Assumptions, page ix
	"Emotions give a more activated and chemically stimulated brain, which helps us recall things better."	Cahil et al, 1994
	"An adolescent who is able to read a teacher’s feelings is more likely to get a break on a late assignment, some extra help, and maybe even a better grade than a student who is just as smart in "IQ" but not as smart in "EQ"—emotional intelligence."	Maurice J. Elias, Ph. D.; Steven E. Tobias, Psy.D.; Brian S. Friedlander, Ph. D. Authors, Emotionally Intelligent Parenting, p. 11
	"People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving."	Salovey, Mayer, Goldman, Turvey, and Palfai, 1995
	"Increased EQ skills reduce discipline problems."	Doyle, 1986
	"Improved EQ skills increase 'on task' behaviors."	Rosenfield, 1991
	"As much as 80% of adult 'success' comes from EQ."	Daniel Goleman, 1995

Question	Quote	Source
Why should EQ matter to me?
	"Emotional Intelligence is essential to interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships at school, at home, and at work."	McCown et al. Self-Science: The Emotional Intelligence Curriculum, Outcomes, page 3
	"If we lack emotional intelligence, whenever stress rises the human brain switches to autopilot and has an inherent tendency to do more of the same, only harder. Which, more often than not, is precisely the wrong approach in today’s world."	Dr. Robert K. Cooper Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations, 1996, page xxxi
	"Emotions are a critical source of information for learning."	LeDoux, 1993
	"The basic unit of human memory is information in context plus feeling."	Maurice Elias, 1999
	"There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked."	Eric Jensen, 1998
	Emotions are "enmeshed in the neural networks of reason."	Damasio, 1994
	"Emotions are the glue that holds the cells of the organism together."	Candace Pert EQ Today, Spring 1999
	"Emotional intelligence is helping to focus on what it means to be complete human beings."	Maurice Elias, 1999
	"All learning has an emotional base."	Plato
	"We define ourselves by our relationships, so when it is time to change and grow, it is changing those relationships that is both the challenge and the sustenance."	Josh Freedman EQ Today, Winter 1999
	"Emotional Intelligence is helping to focus us on what it means to be complete human beings."	Maurice Elias EQ Today, Winter 1999
	"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving... and that's your own self."	Aldous Huxley
	"Emotions help keep us on the right track by making sure that we are led by more than cognition."	Maurice Elias EQ Today, Spring 1999
	"An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously."	Jack Mayer EQ Today, Spring 1999
	"There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones."	Anabel Jensen EQ Today, Spring 1999
	"[What is the difference between emotions and feelings?] Emotions are cross cultural - the same all over the world. Feelings are a subset of all of our mind-body states (disappointment, hunger, hope, etc. There are hundreds of them!). Feelings are a learned response in the culture in which you grow up (the family, the peers, the community, etc.)."	Eric Jensen EQ Today, Spring 1999
	"There are emotions which are more biologically oriented and then there are complex emotions which are saturated with thoughts and cognition."	Jack Mayer EQ Today, Spring 1999

Question	Quote	Source
EQ Training/Six Seconds:
	[The EQ training seminar] helped me increase my level of optimism and gain confidence in myself."	Participant's reaction to a 5-day seminar EQ Today, Spring 1999
	"The overarching principle of Six Seconds' training is that people learn from a combination of modeling, experience, and reflection. That in mind, there are three principles for building an EQ environment: An emotionally engaging enviroment; a community; and opportunities to practice."	Josh Freedman EQ Today, Building EQ Training, Spring 1999

Posted on March 28, 2003 by Editor

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