#si

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#music #sarcasm #won

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

#distressing #effective #emotional #emotions #empathy

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

#distressing #emotions #helps #i #i think

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

#emotions #feeling #i #life #makes

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

#book #business #case #emotional #i

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

#come #depression #done #example #for example

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#any #choices #compassion #go #improve

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

#being #benefits #better #between #brain

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 company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#bottom line #buy #cared #company #concerns

I just do what I do. I like to make music. ↗

— Neil Young

#i do #just #like #make #music