Susan Orlean Quotes

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.

We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.

Once we went off into the singles world, I noticed there is something very unique about Brother Nero. People are drawn to him, and he has intangibles and charisma that cannot be emulated or duplicated.

It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.

The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a 'leader.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.

There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Being charming takes time and effort, and I am busy.

One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

Design means being good, not just looking good.

Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

I grant you that frustration is a very mild form of fear, yet it is fear nonetheless.

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .