Daniel Goleman Quotes About Emotional Intelligence

Quotes about: Emotional Intelligence

• 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

  Smart, Emotional, Self

  "The Weeping, the Window, the Way: Will Suffering Make You Bitter Or Better?". Book by John O. Dozier, 2010.

• 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.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2015). “HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman)(HBR's 10 Must Reads)”, p.3, Harvard Business Review Press

• Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Skills

• Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.

  Daniel Goleman

  Stress, Optimistic, Men

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.7, Bantam

• 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

  Jobs, Successful, Emotional

• 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.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Children, Emotional

• Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Skills, Empathy

  "Sociability: It's all in your mind". Interview with Sharon Jayson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 24, 2006.

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

  Daniel Goleman

  Inspirational, Real, Thinking

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.38, Bantam

• Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

  Daniel Goleman

  Self, Feelings, Perception

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.434, Bantam

• Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

  Daniel Goleman

  Perseverance, Block, Emotional

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.100, Bantam

• 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

  Emotional, Skills, Organization

• 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

  Strong, Book, Writing

• IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Skills, Important

  "What Makes a Leader?". Harvard Business Review, November - December 1998.

• CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Ceo, Intellect

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.16, Bantam

• Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige,
  or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on
  academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also
  matters immensely for our personal destiny.

  Daniel Goleman

  School, Destiny, Emotional

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.72, Bantam

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin