Quote

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

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
Wrong
Ever
Thing
Kind
Think
Thinking
Poorly
Managed
Focus

More quotes by Daniel Goleman

Image
Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.
Daniel Goleman
Image
A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless one blind to the world of others will be clueless those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.
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
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
Daniel Goleman
Image
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.
Daniel Goleman
Image
When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.
Daniel Goleman
Image
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.
Daniel Goleman
Image
It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.
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 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.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
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
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
Daniel Goleman
Image
The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.
Daniel Goleman
Image
The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks
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