Quotes About Charisma

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

Don't give a speech. Put on a show.

A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.

Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

it was part of being very young that you overestimated the lightweights with charisma.

Führer Kontakt it was called, an intense magnetic hold that made the person with him believe, just for that moment, that he or she was the only one in the room. A hypnotic force that dazzled, empowered, and enslaved.

There are people who can make us laugh even when they don't intend to, largely because their very presence pleases us, and so it's easy enough to set us off, simply seeing them and being in their company and hearing them is all it takes, even if they're not saying anything very extraordinary or are even deliberately spouting nonsense, which we nevertheless find funny.

if Clinton's answers come off as well-intended lectures, Obama is offering soaring sermons and generational opportunity. In 1960, the articulate Adlai Stevenson compared his own oratory unfavorably with John F. Kennedy's. Do you remember, Stevenson said, that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke,' but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march.' At this hour, Obama is the Democrats' Demosthenes.

But there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which, without being in the least theatrical, struck him as highly trained and full of a conscious power. (Newland Archer of Countess Olenska)

He is a great big boy, Wilson said. There is a sweetness about him that is very compelling. You can't resist the man. I can easily understand why his followers are so fond of him.

With golden giftes and many a guilefull word Entyced her, to him for accord. O who may not with gifts and words be tempted?

Todo el que aspire a ser un gran líder ha de lucirse a la hora de vender sus ideas y aspiraciones

Anyone who aspires to be a great leader needs to excel at selling his ideas and aspira tions to others. Sometimes you have to persuade people to do things they don't want to do, or to sell them on the idea that they can achieve something they had not dreamed about.

I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.

I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.

I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

Call me curl-crazed, but there's just something about a head full of waves that can command any room and make any outfit more interesting.

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

Crazy players love me. I don't know why.

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.

I'm confident. I'm a crowd pleaser.

I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that's what it is. I'm a crowd pleaser.

I've got a lot of charisma, plus women are forgiving and they can be charmed.