Quote

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.

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
Present
Hover
Practice
Voluntarily
Attention
Internals
Internal
Train
Build
Capacity
Needed

More quotes by Daniel Goleman

Image
We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.
Daniel Goleman
Image
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.
Daniel Goleman
Image
There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.
Daniel Goleman
Image
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.
Daniel Goleman
Image
The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.
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
I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Daniel Goleman
Image
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.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.
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
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Happy, calm children learn best
Daniel Goleman
Image
The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
Daniel Goleman
Image
The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks
Daniel Goleman
Image
The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.
Daniel Goleman
Image
But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
Daniel Goleman