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)
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)
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)
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)
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. (Daniel Goleman)
Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it. (Daniel Goleman)
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)
The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication. (Daniel Goleman)
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)
The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response. (Daniel Goleman)
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature. (Daniel Goleman)
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind. (Daniel Goleman)
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)
I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions. (Daniel Goleman)
However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years. (Daniel Goleman)