1. “People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.” ― Daniel Goleman
2. “There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.” ― Daniel Goleman
3. “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
4. “The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.” ― Daniel Goleman
5. “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.” ― Daniel Goleman
6. “The social brain is in its natural habitat when we’re talking with someone face-to-face in real time.” ― Daniel Goleman
7. “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.” ― Daniel Goleman
8. “Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of ‘green’ as a verb, not an adjective.” ― Daniel Goleman
9. “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
10. “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.” ― Daniel Goleman
11. “Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.” ― Daniel Goleman
12. “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
13. “When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.” ― Daniel Goleman
14. “If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.” ― Daniel Goleman
15. “One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.” ― Daniel Goleman
16. “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
17. “There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy… They’re controlled by different parts of the brain.” ― Daniel Goleman
18. “A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.” ― Daniel Goleman
19. “There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.” ― Daniel Goleman
20. “Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.” ― Daniel Goleman
21. “Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.” ― Daniel Goleman
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