American - Author | March 7, 1946 -
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
Daniel Goleman
LifeFatherPeopleBrainBetter
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.
DepressionMindAnxietyYouTrain
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.
TalkingFeelingsComfortableTeachers
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.
PositiveFocusSmallNegativeOthers
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.
MorningDaySmallIgnoreHouseGo
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.
PracticePresentAttentionYouTrain
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.
YouCreateDigitalOfficeNeedLink
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.
JobIntelligenceStrongerYouWill
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.
ChildrenIntelligenceParentsSmall
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
MindStudyReligionsAsianBegan
However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.
TimeOverYearsOffBeganAbout
But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
YearsGreaterInterestBeenFar
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Daniel Goleman quotes