287 Quotes by Daniel Goleman

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.

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.

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.

I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions.

We are being judged by a new yardstick: not just how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how we handle ourselves and each other.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities