Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman Quotes

#1. CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

#2. The workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

#3. The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.

Bea Davenport

#4. IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership.

Daniel Goleman

#5. Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

Daniel Goleman

#6. And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

Chris Crutcher

#7. Excellent things are rare.

Plato

#8. 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 the emotional intelligence that also
matters immensely for our personal destiny.

Daniel Goleman

#9. Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Daniel Goleman

#10. I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

Howard Gardner

#11. 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

#12. Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Daniel Goleman

#13. The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Daniel Goleman

#14. Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

Daniel Goleman

#15. An uncomplicated woman gets complicated when she finally says what she means.

Kathy Dunnehoff

#16. 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

#17. Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

Daniel Goleman

#18. The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.

George Soros

#19. Emotional self-control
delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Daniel Goleman

#20. Yes, beloved reader, our God reigneth, and if we crown Him Lord of all, Lord of our soul, Lord of our body, Lord of all the circumstance in our lives, we shall find that He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.

Carrie Judd Montgomery

#21. 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

#22. Then the flash of the strobe.
Give me sympathy.
Flash.
Give me brutal honesty.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. Emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success.

Daniel Goleman