Quotes About Charisma

Happy Birthday, Mr Presidenttttt

Hitler as "the only man who can save us

Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politicians stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference.

If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

and the HE stands up. if frenchy's could bottle him up and sell him as porn, they'd probably own half of chicago within a year. he's what would happen after nine months if abercrombie fucked fitch. he's like a movie star, an olympic swimmer, and america's next top male model all at once. he's wearing a silver shirt and pink pants. everything about him sparkles. not my type at all. but...

Manners matter as this author memorably illustrates. Eleanor Roosevelt stubbornly kept her clout behind Adlai Stevenson was an almost visceral resistance to John F. Kennedy's charms as a newcomer to power. The sudden death of Eleanor's granddaughter shortly before JFK was to meet with her suggested that rapprochement was impossible. Kennedy's genuine gentle manners toward the grieving former first lady won her over and may have shifted the balance in an extremely close election.

JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.

While JFK had made the sale on a political level, he had not yet completed it on an emotional one.

When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter down Seventh Avenue. . . . the cosmic Zora emerges. . . . How can anybody deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me!

A superstar takes everybody everywhere. "What

Daisy is a walking drum tune. You can almost hear it by looking at the way she walks.

Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man.

I've been a big blagger all my life.

Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.

To me, sex appeal means that when an actress is on the screen, she just engulfs the whole screen.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

The Situation has mass appeal.

Nothing tempts a young man more than to play the part of a good genius to a woman.

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

We are all glamorous, some more so than others.

Hitler was seen as a type of 'political instructor'. He could whip up the feelings of the masses like no one else. But beyond that he had no clear idea of the mechanics of attaining power. Cooler heads were needed for that.

Charismatic rule has long been neglected and ridiculed, but apparently it has deep roots and becomes a powerful stimulus once the proper psychological and social conditions are set. The Leader's charismatic power is not a mere phantasm – none can doubt that millions believe in it.' Franz Neumann, 1942

Hitler's achievement as a speaker was, therefore, to become the main popularizer of ideas that were in no way his invention, and that served other interests as well as his own.

My name is Kilimanjaro West," he said, and something in the way he spoke that name made the crowded 'lectrovan fall electrically quiet. "Pleased to meet you all.