Most people are eager to make a connection and talk too much, however it's in listening that you come to truly understand a person and what makes them tick.

If you radiate a genuine confidence in your actions, others tend to believe in your goals as well. If you don't believe in your desired outcome, why should the rest of the world ?

If you focus on the reason why you should reach your goal you will put yourself in a more confident mindset.

A good way to empower yourself before a big moment is to write down 10 reasons why a person would want to say yes to your suggestion or ideas.

Meditation lowers the stress level and also strengthens your mental strength and focus, creativity and memory, qualities which are crucial to good conversations and building relationships.

If your thoughts, words and actions are congruent you come off to others as authentic and self-assured. Others will respond to you as you truly are.

Most people fail to be congruent because they don't want to show weakness. But typically best friends know your worst and most unattractive moments.

If you do what you are really passionate about you will be attractive to others.

Stop looking for validation from others. If you do things because you genuinely want them you free yourself up to pursue interests and hobbies that you may never have considered before.

Take back control of your self-image by worrying less about what others think of you and more about who you really are and how much you are enjoying life.

Everyone loves to talk - but few have perfected the art of listening.

Listening opens your mind, strengthens your sense of empathy and develops your ability to connect.

Your most important and long-lasting relationship is the one that you have with yourself.

To accept the fact that not everyone will like you can be tremendously freeing. Rejection is rarely about your defects more often two persons simply don't mesh well. Then it's better to put time and energy into other relationships.

It makes her instantly feel something It’s easy to respond to It’s creative and/or humorous

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

Fear kills growth.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.

Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

Spider-Man is a school boy that's looking for his parents.

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Costco is a passion. Costco is like a massage.

Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework.

Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

For me, what works best is to try to eat healthy and not worry about the scale.