The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“What distinguishes leaders in medicine goes far beyond that knowledge, into interpersonal skills like empathy, conflict resolution, and people development.” — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
