Daniel Goleman quotes - page 2

As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia. (Daniel Goleman)
Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself. View quote
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Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping. View quote
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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. View quote
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The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. View quote
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If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. View quote
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Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control. View quote
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If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily. View quote
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When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills. View quote
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But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before. View quote
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But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. (Daniel Goleman)
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships. View quote
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The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them. View quote
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Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day. View quote
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When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. View quote
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While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind. View quote
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Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever. View quote
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However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years. View quote
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In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life. View quote
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There are many leaders, not just one. Leadership is distributed. It resides not solely in the individual at the top, but in every person at every level who, in one way or another, acts as a leader to a group of followers - wherever in the organization that person is, whether shop steward, team head, or CEO. View quote
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IQ is a genetic given that cannot be changed by life experience, and that our destiny in life is largely fixed by these aptitudes. (Daniel Goleman)
Our emotional intelligence determines our potential for learning the practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships. View quote
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Effective leaders are alike in one crucial way: They all have a high degree of what has come to be known as emotional intelligence. It's not that IQ and technical skills are irrelevant. They do matter, but mainly as "threshold capabilities”; that is, they are the entry-level requirements for executive positions. But my research, along with other recent studies, clearly shows that emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership. View quote
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There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character. View quote
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Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck. View quote
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