287 Quotes by Daniel Goleman

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

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.

Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.

Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.

Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.

The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

When we focus on others, our world expands.