Focus Quotes by Daniel Goleman

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

— Daniel Goleman

When we focus on others, our world expands.

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Compassion begins with attention.

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“A wealth of information means a poverty of attention.”

— Daniel Goleman

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

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Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

— Daniel Goleman

“You need the negative focus to survive, but a positive one to thrive,”

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“It takes a panoramic attention to appreciate system-level interactions,”

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One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

— Daniel Goleman

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

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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…

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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

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already…

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Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the…

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Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting…

— Daniel Goleman

Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the…

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As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It…

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All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this…

— Daniel Goleman

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and…

— Daniel Goleman

There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short…

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Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems…

— Daniel Goleman