Top 100 Goleman Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it.
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#3. The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
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#4. Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
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#8. Good work requires enthusiasm, ethics, and excellence.
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#9. Emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success.
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#10. Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
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#11. The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks
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#12. Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.
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#13. 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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#14. When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.
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#15. Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.
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#16. Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.
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#17. Dreams are private myths; myths are shared dreams").
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#18. 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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#21. At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.
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#22. The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.
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#23. 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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#24. In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
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#25. This harkens back to Freud's famous question, "What does woman want?" As Epstein answers, "She wants a partner who cares what she wants.
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#26. Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.
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#27. Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
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#28. 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.
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#29. The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.
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#30. People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
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#31. Empathy, as we have seen, leads to caring, altruism, and compassion. Seeing things from another's perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences.
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#32. There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.
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#33. The best leaders don't know just one style of leadership - they're skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.
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#34. 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 taken the medication.
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#35. Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.
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#36. 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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#37. The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
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#38. Emotional self-control
delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
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#39. Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.
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#40. Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.
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#41. If there is a remedy, I feel it must lie in how we prepare our young for life.
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#42. Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
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#43. While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
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#44. People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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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#47. 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.
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#48. People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.
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#49. In short, out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.
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#50. we learn the emotional habits that can undermine our best intentions, as well as what we can do to subdue our more destructive or self-defeating emotional impulses. Most important, the neurological data suggest a window of opportunity for shaping our children's emotional habits.
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#51. In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world.
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#52. Others point to data showing that even as toddlers, 40 percent of American two-year-olds watch TV for at least three hours a day - hours they are not interacting with people who can help them learn to get along better. The more TV they watch, the more unruly they are by school age.
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#53. I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
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#54. It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.
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#55. Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what people have to say. They listen carefully, picking up on what people are truly concerned about, and respond on the mark.
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#56. 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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#57. For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.
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#58. When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
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#59. Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.
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#65. Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.
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#66. Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side's demands - knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.
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#67. Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.
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#68. Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
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#69. Academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil - or opportunity - life's vicissitudes bring.
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#70. Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.
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#71. If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
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#72. To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them.
Tara Bennett-Goleman
#73. Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.
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#75. Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.
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#76. Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics - what they believe matters.18
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#77. Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head
feeling and thought
meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.
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#78. CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
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#79. In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
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#80. 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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#81. Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
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#82. Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.
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#83. Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.
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#84. 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.
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#85. Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
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#86. 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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#87. There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.
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#88. And if there are any two moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint and compassion.
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#89. Rumination can also make the depression stronger by creating conditions that are, well, more depressing.
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#91. The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.
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#92. The new measure takes for granted having enough intellectual ability and technical know-how to do our jobs; it focuses instead on personal qualities, such as initiative and empathy, adaptability and persuasiveness.
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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
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#96. Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny.
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#97. Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is "the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires."14
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#98. The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.
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#99. In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
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#100. 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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