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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

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The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

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We're exposed and carry in our bodies multiple chemicals, and we have to understand how they interact. Both how they individually interact and the thousands of effects they can produce when they interact with the receptors that run our bodies.

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Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

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I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

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

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Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

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

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However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

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

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A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got...

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Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

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In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

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Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

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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