Quotes About Charisma

In a culture that elevates beauty and style, the Christian community is at genuine risk fordistraction, even deception. What do we truly admire in our leaders? Are we nodifferent from secular population, drawn tocharisma and style above substance and i tegrity? I hope not.

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.

I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. 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.

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

He talks the way sprinters run and dancers dance, an elite athlete. He talks as though he was born to talk. At

Jameson was close to me now. Too close. Every one of the Hawthorne boys was magnetic. Larger than life. They had an effect on people—and Jameson was very good at using that to get what he wanted. He wants something from me now.

The world bent to the will of Grayson Hawthorne. What money couldn't buy him, those eyes probably did.

This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep with him. They find his awfulness transfixing. He's like a lousy 1970's disaster movie that they can't bring themselves to turn off, even though it is making their life worse every minute they leave it on.

Mr. Charismo? Surely not Tibor Charismo, the most famous man in all of England.

has any of you such power as Socrates had, in all his intercourse with men, of winning them over to his own convictions?

I told him a story, Calista. People will follow you anywhere if you tell them a tale they desperately want to believe. It's astonishing, really, how gullible even the most skeptical person can be if he or she wants to believe.

He was forceful, domineering, and supremely sure of himself. When you have low self-esteem, as I did, those qualities are attractive.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are ridiculous-looking - especially her. They're so strange and charismatic and weird. It's pretty hard to take your eyes off them.

Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

We convince by our presence.

I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.

I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is a beauty hero even though she was definitely considered to not be beautiful. It was just her charisma and stage presence, and to me, that really defines beauty.

Your stage presence is as good as your screen presence.

Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.

I think my presence around the table was mesmerising at times. It captured people.

God has blessed me with a certain amount of presence and a certain amount of charisma.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

That's what I look for in models: Someone who can tell a story and has a presence in front of the camera.