Quote

Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

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
Feeling
Winds
Feelings
Gifted
Two
Allow
Thought
Meet
Heart
Leadership
Wind
Leader
Soar
Head
Occurs

More quotes by Daniel Goleman

Image
It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.
Daniel Goleman
Image
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.
Daniel Goleman
Image
IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.
Daniel Goleman
Image
What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.
Daniel Goleman
Image
One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of short-term memory - patients feel better because they can't remember why they were sad.
Daniel Goleman
Image
People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.
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
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
Image
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.
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
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
Daniel Goleman
Image
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
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
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
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
Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also matters immensely for our personal destiny.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
Daniel Goleman
Image
The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.
Daniel Goleman
Image
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
Daniel Goleman