Best 140 quotes in «charisma quotes» category

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.

Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

Comedy is like fictional charm. It's the charm of fiction. Or the charisma of fiction. When you meet somebody who's immediately charismatic, you're attracted to that person. And in fiction it's got to come out in either one of two ways: in the prose itself, and you're hooked immediately because you never want to leave such a colorful and penetrating world. Or, it's simply being a funny writer.

Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you, to be around you, to be influenced by you.

Dark circles are my charisma though.

I have no natural charisma or personality, really.

Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

I love to work. It fascinates me. And I love seeing who's coming up, who's got the charisma to last, who's got the intelligence to move on to other things. I'm so glad now that I'm stuck behind the piano, because when you're getting older it's very hard to waddle around the stage.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

Never be impressed with charisma. Look for character.

People say a lot of things, like "You can't teach personality" or "You can't teach charisma," and I find that it's not true.

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

Research has shown that one's level of intelligence is the single most predictive component of professional success - better than any other ability, trait, or even job experience. Yet, too often, employees are selected because of their likeability, presence, or charisma.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.

Actually, Elizabeth realized, when he laughed like that, he did look quite handsome. His dark brown hair and his eyes, so light a brown as to seem almost gold in color, were not quite as nondescript as she'd once thought. Maybe the giggling young ingenues weren't completely daft. Despite his maddening tendencies to be deliberately obtuse and tease her relentlessly, he had a certain charisma.

Adele doesn't need any ironic detachment. She can love and appreciate the talent of others without feeling threatened herself. This is often very hard for people. We usually worry that someone else's talent or success is being compared with our own so we take the role of a critic and evaluate people harshly in order to protect our own egos. People like Adele focus on what they like and they ignore the comparisons. Plus, they let the people around them know when they found something that they love about their work or their art.

Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.

The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.

You can't teach charisma. You can draw it out of people if it's there and they haven't quite figured out how to utilize it yet, but it's just one of those things, that's why they call it the "X factor".

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

All popular political doctrines charge your brain with various liberal ideas, such as respect for human rights and freedom, toleration, gender equality and so and so forth. However, in the political arena, a candidate with a charismatic personality in the eyes of the masses, has a great advantage over his opponents in political competition. If you want to become a likely winner, cultivate your charisma, make people believe in you and share your opinion, with no regard to what it is. Your victory depends more on your charisma than on the ideas that you follow.

An experiment had students rate lecturing professors with the sound off. Their ratings closely mirrored evaluations of students who went through the courses with the same professors.

As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

A true leader is someone who is followed not because she paid them to or because she forced them to, but because she leads from conviction and faith. - Strong by Kailin Gow

A handshake, as delivered by Lyndon Johnson, could be as effective as a hug.

A great attitude toward your approach to an interview—demonstrated by your good posture—is everything.

Bernard of Clairvaux shared with Goethe and Balzac the art of charging narratives with his own charisma (and this is probably the only context in which those three names can be mentioned in one breath). On the surface self-representation was not the purpose of such narratives; they presented themselves as fiction or as commentaries on scripture. Let me suggest the word 'autography' to describe the process. 'Autography' is writing yourself into your own composition, not by describing yourself, but by infusing your own presence into it. The reader feels your presence, but sees someone or something else.

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

But charisma only wins people’s attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.

But I don't believe I see Valentine Morgenstern. I hear he has charisma enough to draw birds out of trees and convince them to live under the sea, is tall, devastatingly handsome, and has white-blond hair. None of you fits that discription." Magnus paused. "And you don't have white-blonde hair either.

Charisma without character is postponed calamity.

Charisma is the fragrance of soul.

(...) Clay knew better. He and Gabriel had been friends for thirty-five years, and Gabe had been talking him into doing recklessly stupid shit for damn near all of them. He was a charismatic craftsman: every heart a furnace, every soul a blade.

Confident Assured Posture: Foundation of Powerful Style

David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.

Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.

For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than courage and will, better than experience, ordinarily the best product of the longest lives—the faculty divinest of men, but which”—he stopped, and laughed again, not bitterly, but with real zest—“but which even the great do not sufficiently account, while with the herd it is a non-existent—the faculty of drawing men to my purpose and holding them faithfully to its achievement, by which, as against things to be done, I multiply myself into hundreds and thousands.

Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.

Deacon was good, too-almost as good as me. His charisma draws people in, even if it's only a facade.