Daniel Goleman Quotes

• In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.

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• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

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• Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

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• 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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• Emotional ‘literacy’ implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children’s learning and as individual mentors.

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• 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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• 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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• A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt ‘Don’t bother me – I’ve got important work to do.’

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• There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy… They’re controlled by different parts of the brain.

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• 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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• While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

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• 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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• The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

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• 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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• 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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• Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

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Daniel Goleman (34)

Birth:	7th March, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Psychologist

About

Daniel Jay Goleman was born in Stockton, California. He is an American author, psychologist, and science journalist. He is the author of more than 10 books on psychology, education, science, ecological crisis, and leadership. He received a scholarship from the Ford Foundation to attend Harvard University where he received his PhD studying under David C. McClelland. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. He authored the internationally best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence, that spent more than one-and-a-half years on The New York Times Best Seller list. Goleman's most recent best-seller is Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. Goleman has received many awards for his writing, including a Career Achievement award for journalism from the American Psychological Association.

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