Daniel Goleman

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at…

— Daniel Goleman

When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal…

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Daniel Goleman

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

What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree…

— Daniel Goleman

“What distinguishes leaders in medicine goes far beyond that knowledge, into interpersonal skills like empathy, conflict resolution, and people development.”

— 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

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

— Daniel Goleman

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

— Daniel Goleman

The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is…

— Daniel Goleman

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability…

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Daniel Goleman

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

— Daniel Goleman

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

— Daniel Goleman

Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on…

— Daniel Goleman

“self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.”

— Daniel Goleman

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

— Daniel Goleman

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

— Daniel Goleman

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

— Daniel Goleman

“The most powerful form of nondefensive listening, of course, is empathy: actually hearing the feelings behind what is being said.”

— Daniel Goleman

“Although you set your goal of getting a B, when your first exam score, worth 30% of your final grade is returned,…

— 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

Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.

— 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