A renowned psychologist and author, Daniel Goleman has written international best sellers about his research into cognitive and emotional topics. He has received countless awards for his impressive work, including the Career Achievement award from the American Psychological Association. Here is a fantastic collection of some of his best quotes.
“A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother 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’.”
“A prerequisite to empathy is imply paying attention to the person in pain.”
“Anyone can become angry —that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way —this is not easy.”
“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.”
“Critiques, like praise, are most effective face to face and in private.”
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“Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.”
“Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.”
“Effective leaders are alike in one crucial way: They all have a high degree of what has come to be known as emotional intelligence. It’s not that IQ and technical skills are
irrelevant.”
“Emotional aptitude is a “meta-ability” , determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have , including raw intellect.”
“Every businessperson knows a story about a highly intelligent, highly skilled executive who was promoted into a leadership position only to fail at the job.”
“Exploration means we disengage from a current focus to search for new possibilities, and allows flexibility, discovery.”
“Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and “proofs” all their own.”
“For leaders to get results they need all three kinds of focus. Inner focus attunes us to our intuitions, guiding values, and better decisions.”
“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.”
“In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static—whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments—people cannot offer their best.”
“It demoralizes people just to hear that they are doing “something” wrong without knowing what the specifics are so they can change.”
“Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.”
“One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.”
“Our emotional intelligence determines our potential for learning the practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and
adeptness in relationships.”
“Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.”
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“People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.”
“Rumination can also make the depression stronger by creating conditions that are, well, more depressing.”
“Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.”
“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is a little we can do to change until we notice how
failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”
“The single most important factor in maximizing the excellence of a group’s product was the degree to which the members were able to create a state of internal harmony, which lets them take advantage of the full talent of their members.”
“There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy…they’re controlled by different parts of the brain.”
“This is a call for empathy, for being attuned to the impact of what you say and how you say it on the person at the receiving end. Managers who have little empathy, Levinson points
out, are most prone to giving feedback in a hurtful fashion, such as the withering put-down.”
“Though they are quick to put others down, unhealthy narcissists view themselves in absolutely positive terms.”
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— Dr Owen Bain (@Gourmet_focus) September 10, 2015
“True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”
“Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.”
“Western business people often don’t get the importance of establishing human relationships.”
“When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.”
“When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine – but not when she looks elsewhere.”
“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.”
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