People always switched on turn me off.

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

I had to wonder, though, if there’s something about a murderer, particularly a confident one, that gives him a certain charisma or charm that I, in particular, am susceptible to.I mean, there’s a reason more...

If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attachedto you, punishments are not enforced,...

No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or...

Joshua had always been able to get away with things—things for which he should never have been forgiven. He was a lot like James in that respect, for while my husband had bought his grace...

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

Laine had been very proud of herself last night. Nicholas had talked about ghosts and magic and woven a bit of a spell himself. He’d sounded so convincing, so logical, so sad, that she’d found...

Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking – but, like Lou Gehrig, he lacked the chemistry that stirred affection.

Human beings remember “firsts”- the first time something happens, or the begining of an experience- and we tend to remember “lasts” as well. So when you are about to make a critical/negative delivery , start...

He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.

Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

Charisma without character is postponed calamity.

The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university … The great failure in education, much of...

They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

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

He had great charisma and he had great love for people in general, and a great regard for young people, … He had real faith and real fervor, and he was a man of God....

Jack Kennedy brought an “intense concentration” and a “gently teasing humor” to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of “vacuum cleaning your brain.

The basis of intimidation as I practiced it was mystery. I wanted the hitter to know nothing about me.

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...

On a potential husband, “All I ask is someone with a little imagination, but they are hard to find.

Charisma is the fragrance of soul.

When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they’re seeing, but they...

He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.

[Ellin was looking for a rapper who had not yet made it, but had the talent to do so.] As we were writing that script, we thought it was going to be a nightmare if...

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only...

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

Fame is not so impossible for people with charisma, passion and talent. Being famous just means you have fans, and even one or two is enough to make you someone special. Ask a music fan...

The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a...

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

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...

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

There were so many people who came here because of his charisma, and that helped us educate people on the bigger picture, the plight of gorillas in the wild.

The essential difference with Builders is that they’ve found something to do that matters to them and are therefore so passionately engaged, they rise above the personality baggage that would otherwise hold them down. Whatever...

He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.

…that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

The thought behind it was fantastic but Hyde Park is a charisma-free zone.

(Lyndon) Johnson created his own theater.

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers,...

Teddy Roosevelt “had relished “every hour” of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the “dull thud” he would experience upon returning to private life.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

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...

a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

The vampire could woo any woman with his charisma and his charm, but he only wishes to romance her.. for eternity.

You could just tell he had a lot of charisma, that he was a kind of showman.