Top 23 Focus Daniel Goleman Quotes
#1. It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.
Richard Branson
#2. To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
Herman Melville
#4. We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.
Richard Branson
#5. Very few people had sense enough to appreciate silence.
Katarina Bivald
#6. Every morning I wake up and thank God that I don't believe in him.
Mike Malloy
#7. The seeker has no beliefs, he is open and trusts his feelings. His religion is life, his God is life, he makes no divisions of nations as he sees the world is one and we are all human beings. Life itself reveals how to live and he trusts life.
Chobo
#8. There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.
Marsha Norman
#9. 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
#11. 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
#12. Information age. I guess I'm part of it, even if I can't remember how to use my iPhone from week to week, and have to learn how to send e-mails all over again every couple of years, and can't retain any profound technological knowledge about the computers I sometimes use.
Anne Rice
#13. 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.
Daniel Goleman
#14. He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night.
Eudora Welty
#16. We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections
Daniel Goleman
#17. 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.
Daniel Goleman
#18. One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
Daniel Goleman
#19. In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
Noam Chomsky
#20. The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
Tara Brach
#21. It's not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled. Start to subtract sevens successively from 100 and, if you keep your focus on the task, your chatter zone goes quiet.
Daniel Goleman
#22. You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
Harold Perrineau
#23. 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.
Daniel Goleman
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