Daniel Goleman Quotes - Page 4

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• Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.

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  Motivational, Practice, Work Out

  Daniel Goleman (2013). “Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence”, p.114, A&C Black

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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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  Communication, Emotional, Empathy

  "Building a 'Muscular Empathy'" by Viral Mehta, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2012.

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• A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

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  Pain, Empathy, Attention

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• Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

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  Being Positive, Negative, Positive Work

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• Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory.

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  Memories, Emotional, Feelings

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.435, Bantam

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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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  Art, Emotional, Symbolic Meaning

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.314, Bantam

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• Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.

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  Children, Opportunity, Play

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• What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

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  Leadership, Character, Emotional

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• Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny.

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  Destiny, Emotional, Brain

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.27, Bantam

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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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  Taken, Anxiety, Mind

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• Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing, imagining some terrible tragedy. Worries are almost always expressed in the mind's ear, not its eye - that is, in words, not images - a fact that has significance for controlling worry.

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  Eye, Worry, Mind

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.116, Bantam

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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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  Simple, Compassion, Shopping

  "How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

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• Although traditional incentives such as bonuses or recognition can prod people to better performance, no external motivators can get people to perform at their absolute best. . . .Wherever people gravitate within their work roles, indicates where their real pleasure lies—and that pleasure is itself motivating.

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  Lying, Real, People

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• 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."

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  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

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  Practice, Attention, Capacity

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

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  Peace, War, Weight

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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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  Survival, Special, Emotion

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.436, Bantam

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• Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

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  Self, Attention, Digital

  "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence". Book by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2013.

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• ....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.

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  Emotional, Self, Essence

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.140, Bantam

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• The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

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  Self, Worry, Tasks

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• Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

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  Powerful, Eye, Survival

  "Powering Employees With More Than a Paycheck" by Tony Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2013.

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

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  Real, Emotional, Talking

  "Focus on How You Connect With Others" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

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  Jobs, Feet, Nurse

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

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  Self, Feelings, Perception

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.434, Bantam

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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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  Teacher, Children, School

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