Quote

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

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
Inspirational
Sense
Two
Feels
Real
Mind
Thinks
Thinking
Minds
Inspiration

More quotes by Daniel Goleman

Image
Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.
Daniel Goleman
Image
People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
Daniel Goleman
Image
The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks
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
But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we should have !
Daniel Goleman
Image
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, lead to one or another impulse to act. The root meaning of the word emotion, remember, is to move.
Daniel Goleman
Image
In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world.
Daniel Goleman
Image
It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.
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
Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
Daniel Goleman
Image
IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.
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
When we focus on others, our world expands.
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
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
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
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
Daniel Goleman