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A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.' - Daniel Goleman
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The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy. - Daniel Goleman
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When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. - Daniel Goleman
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The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay. - Daniel Goleman
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But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. - Daniel Goleman
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My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. - Daniel Goleman
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When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills. - Daniel Goleman
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Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages. - Daniel Goleman
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Scheduling down time as part of your routine is hard but worth it, personally, even professionally. - Daniel Goleman
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I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example. - Daniel Goleman
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Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike. - Daniel Goleman
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We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before. - Daniel Goleman
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Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck. - Daniel Goleman
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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. - Daniel Goleman
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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
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In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding. - Daniel Goleman
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Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own. - Daniel Goleman
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There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain. - Daniel Goleman
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Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever. - Daniel Goleman
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The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. - Daniel Goleman
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A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain. - Daniel Goleman
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Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad. - Daniel Goleman
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One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us. - Daniel Goleman
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True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it. - Daniel Goleman
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If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. - Daniel Goleman
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The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. - Daniel Goleman
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