Quotes About Charisma

The devil is a fun character to play because he's everywhere and no where all the time.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Malicious or not, strong leaders always attract followers.

And really, half of beauty is attitude. You feel sexy, they you are sexy.

People want to believe. Ronald Reagan was able to make people believe.

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

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

friends easily and apparently kept them for years; it seems that virtually everyone he ever encountered liked him, unlikely as this seems. A skeptic might suspect that some of those friends were drawn to him by his generosity, which was legendary; he spread money around lavishly wherever he went. Many

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

Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.

His followers, who are also typically his disciples, freely accept his leadership because they perceive him to be the possessor of extraordinary qualities or powers; and this "recognition" of his special qualification is seen by Weber as decisive for the validity of charisma.[

Indeed, we may hypothesize that the followers' spontaneous emotional tendency to surround the leader with a personality cult is one of the characteristic signs of charisma.

The point is that the powers on which he chiefly relied in exercising this forceful individual leadership were his powers of persuasion.

Lenin's personal charisma was neither institutionalized in an office of supreme party leadership (as we have already noted, he had held none), nor was it easily transferable to a successor. No one among the leaders of the party succeeded to Lenin's extraordinary authority.

talking endlessly about [ourselves] is eminently anti-seductive, revealing not self-sufficiency but insecurity.

You are a blank screen. Float through life noncommittally and people will want to seize you and consume you. Of all the parts of your body that draw this fetishistic attention, the strongest is the face; so learn to tune your face like an instrument, making it radiate a fascinating vagueness for effect.

Les gens jugent tout à l'apparence ; ce qui n'est pas visible ne compte pour rien. Ne vous laissez jamais noyer dans la foule ni sombrer dans l'oubli. Soyez à tout prix le point de mire, celui que l'on remarque. Faites-vous plus grand, plus chatoyant, plus mystérieux que la masse terne et morne, soyez l'aimant qui attire tous les regards.

In searching, as you must, for the methods that will gain you the most power for the least effort, you will find the creation of a cultlike following one of the most effective.

su  narcisismo re- sulta endemoniadamente  atractivo.

Esto no debe anunciarse en tus palabras, sino en tu actitud. No te preocupes si esta cualidad oculta es negativa, como peligro, crueldad o amoralidad; la gente se sentirá atraída por el enigma de todas maneras, y es raro que la bondad pura sea seductora.

Muestra heroísmo para conseguir carisma de por vida. A la inversa, el menor signo de cobardía o timidez arruinará el carisma que tengas.

tienen una mirada penetrante que perturba las emociones de sus objetivos, ejerciendo fuerza sin palabras ni actos. Los ojos del carismático nunca indican temor ni nervios.

There may be fewer mighty tyrants commanding the life and death over millions, but there remain thousands of petty tyrants ruling smaller realms, and enforcing their will through indirect power games, charisma, and so on. In every group, power is concentrated in the hands of one or two people, for this is one area in which human nature will never change: People will congregate around a single strong personality like planets orbiting a sun.