Daniel Goleman Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

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  Pain, Mean, Helping Others

• When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

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  Wisdom, Passion, Mean

• Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

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  Heart, Wind, Two

• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Emotional

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

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  Self, Feelings, Perception

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

• The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

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  Children, Feelings, Emotion

• Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

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  Fun, Coffee, Rude

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

• Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory.

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  Memories, Emotional, Feelings

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.435, Bantam

• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

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  Teacher, Talking, Feelings

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.413, Bantam

• people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like

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  Keys, Expression, Voice

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.160, Bantam

• 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.

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  Emotional, Thinking, Self

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