Daniel Goleman

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.