Daniel Goleman Attention Quotations

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

Compassion begins with attention.

The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.