Quotes About Charisma

Strength would help me crush a tomato. Dexterity would help me dodge a thrown tomato. Constitution would help me recover from eating a bad tomato. Intelligence helps me know that a tomato is a fruit, and not a vegetable. Wisdom helps me know not to put a tomato into a fruit salad. And Charisma helps sell a tomato-based fruit salad to someone else, probably someone I intensely dislike.

To some degree...he has the same effect on people. People naturally flock to him. It's like he's giving off a light that I don't have. It's so bright I feel like I'll be extinguished.

He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.

Attraction is not an option.

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

Everybody carries a world. But certain people change the air about them.

For the next hour and a half I watched him flirt indiscriminately with men and women, couples and groups and singles, flashing out that smile, hooking them in, dismissing them after a sentence or two when it became clear he could have them if he wanted.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Roosevelt used to say, "You and I are the two best actors in America.

My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?

people skills and magnetism are as or more important than the actual skills involved.

Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. She sighed, annoyed. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day, God help us all.

Half the men in the room were drawn to her as flies to a ripe apricot.

Appearance is a type of power.

The trouble is, she is unlike anyone I have ever known. There was something intangible about her. Something compelling, like heat from a fire. She had a grace, a spark -

Estuviera donde estuviese, siempre era el centro de todas las miradas, -Kvothe frunció el seño-. No me interpretéis mal. No quiero decir que fuera llamativa, ni vanidosa. Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que hace que un hombre se acerque al fuego no tiene nada que ver con su resplandor. Lo que te atrae del fuego es el calor que sientes cuando te acercas a él. Con Denna pasaba lo mismo.

We had several Startenders who could not only sell ice to Eskimos, but also convince them to pick up snowmaking machines and air-conditioners, not to mention bathing suits and outdoor swimming pools.

a genius for inducing a powerful, platonic man-crush in fundamentally straight guys.

The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.