Daniel Goleman Quotes

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs.

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

I'm an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I'm strong with others.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.

A kid should be told that you can have feelings.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.

I understand emotions more than anyone else. I study emotions like a biologist studies various species.

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.