Daniel Goleman Quotes About Focus

Quotes about: Focus

• Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

  Daniel Goleman

  Compassion, Our World, Self

  "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.

• When we focus on others, our world expands.

  Daniel Goleman

  Our World, Focus, Empathy

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, p.54, Random House

• 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.

  Daniel Goleman

  Workout, Focus, Brain

• 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

  Daniel Goleman

  Focus, Brain, Connections

  Daniel Goleman (2013). “Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence”, p.15, A&C Black

• One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

  Daniel Goleman

  Focus, Way, Distraction

  "The Benefits of a Productive Cocoon" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

• Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

  Daniel Goleman

  Achievement, Focus, East

• I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

  Daniel Goleman

  Thinking, Focus, Kind

• All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.

  Daniel Goleman

  Spiritual, Stress, Goal

• As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

  Daniel Goleman

  College, Meditation Practice, Class

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