Quote

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

Daniel Goleman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
Author
Journalist
Psychologist
Researcher
Writer
Chinatown
Stockton
Feelings
Need
Needs
Teachers
Comfortable
Teacher
Talking

More quotes by Daniel Goleman

Image
Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.
Daniel Goleman
Image
For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.
Daniel Goleman
Image
True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
Daniel Goleman
Image
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
Image
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
Daniel Goleman
Image
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.
Daniel Goleman
Image
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.
Daniel Goleman
Image
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
Image
Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Compassion begins with attention.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
Daniel Goleman
Image
One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.
Daniel Goleman