Top 180 Daniel Goleman Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Compassion begins with attention.”

— Daniel Goleman

52. “Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.”

— Daniel Goleman

53. “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

54. “Whenever you notice your mind wandering,” a fundamental instruction in meditation advises, “bring your mind back to its point of focus.” The operative phrase here is whenever you notice. As our mind drifts off, we almost never notice the moment it launches into some other orbit on its own.”

— Daniel Goleman

55. “Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn’t distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.”

— Daniel Goleman

56. “Not that leaders need to be overly “nice”; the emotional art of leadership includes pressing the reality of work demands without unduly upsetting people.”

— Daniel Goleman

57. “The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.”

— Daniel Goleman

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

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59. “Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else’s toxic state.”

— Daniel Goleman

60. “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 how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.”

— Daniel Goleman

61. “Whenever we feel stressed out, that’s a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.”

— Daniel Goleman

62. “Academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. The brightest among us can founder on the shoals of unbridled passions and unruly impulses; people with high IQs can be stunningly poor pilots of their private lives.”

— Daniel Goleman

63. “1. Knowing one’s emotions. Self-awareness – recognizing a feeling as it happens – is the keystone of emotional intelligence. As.”

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64. “Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.”

— Daniel Goleman

65. “A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.”

— Daniel Goleman

66. “The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.”

— Daniel Goleman

67. “The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.”

— Daniel Goleman

68. “There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.”

— Daniel Goleman

69. “Doggedness depends on emotional traits – enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks – above all else.”

— Daniel Goleman

70. “The antidote for mind wandering is meta-awareness, attention to attention itself, as in the ability to notice that you are not noticing what you should, and correcting your focus. Mindfulness makes this crucial attention muscle stronger.12.”

— Daniel Goleman

71. “Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.”

— Daniel Goleman

72. “Rapport demands joint attention – mutual focus. Our need to make an effort to have such human moments has never been greater, given the ocean of distractions we all navigate daily.”

— Daniel Goleman

73. “Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.”

— Daniel Goleman

74. “Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.”

— Daniel Goleman

75. “Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.”

— Daniel Goleman

76. “Stress makes people stupid.” On.”

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77. “Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind’s processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.”

— Daniel Goleman

78. “Western business people often don’t get the importance of establishing human relationships.”

— Daniel Goleman

79. “And if there are any two moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint and compassion.”

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Daniel Goleman

81. “We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn’t exist before.”

— Daniel Goleman

82. “My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.”

— Daniel Goleman

83. “If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed – at will and voluntarily.”

— Daniel Goleman

84. “Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child. New.”

— Daniel Goleman

85. “Visionary leaders help people to see how their work fits into the big picture, lending people a clear sense not just that what they do matters, but also why.”

— Daniel Goleman

86. “Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of ‘green’ as a verb, not an adjective.”

— Daniel Goleman

87. “Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.”

— Daniel Goleman

88. “People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.”

— Daniel Goleman

89. “Emotional intelligence skills are synergistic with cognitive ones; top performers have both. The more complex the job, the more emotional intelligence matters – if only because a deficiency in these abilities can hinder the use of whatever technical expertise or intellect a person may have.”

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Daniel Goleman

91. “One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory – patients feel better because they can’t remember why they were sad.”

— Daniel Goleman

92. “But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.”

— Daniel Goleman

93. “People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.”

— Daniel Goleman

94. “We’re being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other.”

— Daniel Goleman

95. “When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences – the first person – with what the measurements show – the third person.”

— Daniel Goleman

96. “A Persian fairy tale tells of the Three Princes of Serendip, who “were always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.”7 Creativity in the wild operates much like that.”

— Daniel Goleman

97. “When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.”

— Daniel Goleman

98. “Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.”

— Daniel Goleman

99. “And that is the problem: academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil – or opportunity – life’s vicissitudes bring. Yet even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities, ignoring emotional intelligence, a set of traits – some might call it character – that also matters immensely for our personal destiny.”

— Daniel Goleman

100. “I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.”

— Daniel Goleman