Quotes About Charisma

To be an artist was to interpret experiences for others. The more a person turned in to the charismatic forces in life or in a piece of art the more that person lived in the ecstasy of energy we call life

If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." (as Marie 'Slim' Browning in To Have and Have Not )

the ability to charm, to amuse, to inflame a crowd of ten thousand voters with voice and gesture did not necessarily carry with it the ability to think sensibly, to debate soberly and to vote wisely on the nation's business.

But I had their instant, magnetic liking for my enemy and before I knew where, or even who I was, I had become prisoner of the effect I had on them. [...] I was shackled not so much to my good looks, as to what people, after seeing me, first imagined and then through their imaginations compelled me to be.

So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

La multitud escucha siempre al hombre dotado de una fuerte voluntad. Ya que los individuos reunidos en masa pierden toda voluntad, se tornan instintivamente hacia aquel que la posee.

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You'll know that you're likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.

Feynman—mystifyingly brilliant at calculating, strangely ignorant of the literature, passionate about physics, reckless about proof—had for once overestimated his ability to charm and persuade these great physicists.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

Political orientation is unimportant in populism because it does not deal in evidence or detailed proposals for change but in the manipulation of feelings by charismatic leaders.

When you are authentic, you create a certain energy... people want to be around you because you are unique.

When Barack Obama was running for president, he committed to leading the United Nations and other countries towards a common global goal. Obama believed that he could speak to allies and dictators directly and charm them into seeing the error of their ways.

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

Be confident. There is no one who is not attracted to confidence. Women dig it. Men love it. Confidence adds hair, drops ten pounds, and takes off ten years.

Being yourself doesn't attract women... being your most attractive self, does.

The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.