Daniel Goleman Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.”

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

“However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.”

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

“The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”