Daniel Goleman Short Quotes

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The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

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

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There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

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Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

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Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

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Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

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The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks

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Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

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It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

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There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character.

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Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

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Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

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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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Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

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Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

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Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

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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 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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For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.

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IQ is a genetic given that cannot be changed by life experience, and that our destiny in life is largely fixed by these aptitudes.

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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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We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

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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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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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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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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

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The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

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In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life.

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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.

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Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

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