Daniel Goleman Thinking Quotations

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

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

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.

Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.

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.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.