Daniel Goleman - Emotions Quotes

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If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

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Emotional Intelligence' refers to the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships. It describes abilities distinct from, but complementary to, academic intelligence, the purely cognitive capacities measured by IQ.

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Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

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Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

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People's emotions are rarely put into words, far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels, tone of voice, gesture, facial expression and the like

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For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

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