Explore Quotes by Daniel Goleman

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

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.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

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.

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

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

When we focus on others, our world expands.

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

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.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

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

Happy, calm children learn best

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.

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.

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

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

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

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

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.