Quotes About Gravitas

how you act (gravitas), how you speak (communication), and how you look (appearance) count for a lot in determining your leadership presence.

Serious men, grave persons and reasonable people; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry

Before Newton the English word gravity denoted a mood—seriousness, solemnity….

I don't have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don't think jokes even belong in proper books. I won't bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature.

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.

Substance over style is the rule for all resumes. Any special effects will dilute the gravitas and stature of the impression. You want people to concentrate on your accomplishments and your successes, not the curlicues of a font or unusual shades or contrast of colors.

My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.

When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.