Daniel Goleman Quotes

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have about 1,000-trillion synapses - 10 to the 15, it's a very big number.

The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.

I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

If I'm learning something, that's all I want to talk about.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Learn how to learn, then learn what to learn