Daniel Goleman

“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.”

“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.”

“Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.”

“The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.”

“Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.”

“Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.”

“The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning--every teacher should know about it.”

“Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.”

“We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.”

“People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.”

“Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.”

“But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.”

“The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.”

“Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.”

“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.”

“Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.”

“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.”