Quotes by Daniel Goleman

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

Whenever we feel stressed out, thats 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.

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.

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

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 companys bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

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.

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