Daniel Goleman

Compassion begins with attention.

— Daniel Goleman

When we focus on others, our world expands.

— Daniel Goleman

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

— Daniel Goleman

Happy, calm children learn best

— Daniel Goleman

“shapes those feelings.”

— Daniel Goleman

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

— Daniel Goleman

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

— Daniel Goleman

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

— Daniel Goleman

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

— Daniel Goleman

“Experience, particularly in childhood, sculpts the brain. The”

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Daniel Goleman

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

— Daniel Goleman

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

— Daniel Goleman

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival…

— Daniel Goleman

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each…

— 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.

— Daniel Goleman

Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already…

— Daniel Goleman

IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

— Daniel Goleman

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

— Daniel Goleman

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

— Daniel Goleman

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an…

— Daniel Goleman

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

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing…

— Daniel Goleman

Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing,…

— Daniel Goleman

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

Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers…

— Daniel Goleman

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that…

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Daniel Goleman

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those…

— Daniel Goleman

“circuitry. Studies of neurological patients with damaged prefrontal–limbic circuitry confirm that their cognitive capacities may remain intact, while their emotional intelligence abilities…

— Daniel Goleman

“The Extraordinary Persons Project In fact, Ekman had been so moved personally—and intrigued scientifically—by his experiments with Öser that he announced at…

— Daniel Goleman

“Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin psychologist. He discovered that people who have greater activity in the left frontal lobe, compared to…

— Daniel Goleman

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional…

— Daniel Goleman

“The classical literature in psychology describes the relationship between anxiety and performance, including mental performance, in terms of an upside-down U. At…

— Daniel Goleman

“Yvonne Sell, the Hay Group’s director of the leadership and talent practice in the United Kingdom, who did the study, found such…

— Daniel Goleman

I don't really follow meditation hype. But my impression is that poor studies are cited as "proof" of meditation's benefits, findings that…

— Daniel Goleman

The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see…

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Daniel Goleman

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

— Daniel Goleman

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

— Daniel Goleman