Samuel Butler Quotes

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive, and you're likable.

Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.

We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be.

People are influenced by what we are, what we radiate. This has greater appeal than what we say.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

Hillary Clinton doesn't command the screen. She doesn't look intimidating, inviting, engaging.

I'm a believer that charisma makes a huge difference in people's decisions to follow you. However, it's not just that you say it well, but it's that you know it well. It helps if you can say it well enough that people want to follow you. Charisma isn't required, but it makes a big difference.

Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.