287 Quotes by Daniel Goleman

A visionary leader can impact the process positively by honoring the feelings and beliefs of the people around him, while steadfastly demonstrating teh benefit of moving toward the dream.

Emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success.

Resonant leaders know when to be collaborative and when to be visionary, when to listen and when to command.

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely being nice. At strategic moment it may demand not being nice, but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and proofs all their own.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy.They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

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.

School success is not predicted by a child’s fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures.