Daniel Goleman Quotes

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• The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The…
• There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that…
• At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a…
• The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then…
• Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
• The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It…
• Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study…
• Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity…
• Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.
• Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
• Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
• Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.
• Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what people have to…
• Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple…
• Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
• Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
• Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.
• Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.
• Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
• Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

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