Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have ! — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ -… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity…when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
“What distinguishes leaders in medicine goes far beyond that knowledge, into interpersonal skills like empathy, conflict resolution, and people development.” — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
“Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin psychologist. He discovered that people who have greater activity in the left frontal lobe, compared to the right,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety? — Daniel Goleman Copy Share
