Quotes by Daniel Goleman

About Daniel Goleman:

Daniel Jay Goleman is an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. He is the author of more than 10 books on psychology, education, science, ecological crisis, and leadership.
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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, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to ...

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

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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 ...

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There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

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A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

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But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

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I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

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True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

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Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

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In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

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Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of o...

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As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the...

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The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

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If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

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Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

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The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

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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.

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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

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While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

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Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

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Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

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Author Bio

  • NameDaniel Goleman
  • DescriptionAuthor, psychologist, and science journalist; wrote for 12 years for The New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences.
  • BornMarch 7, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Psychologist