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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

A rise in body temperature during sulphonamide treatment intensifies the biochemical reaction between drug and pathogen, while at the same time the heat itself injures the heat-sensitive gonococci.

I would prefer to be well-liked in any and all situations.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

I'm not very funny!

It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

Most football players are temperamental. Thats 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

When you part from your friend you grieve not. For that which you love in him may be clearer in his absence as the mountain to the climber is cleaner from the plain.

Create a beautiful inside and you will look beautiful on the outside.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

Merely being human is morally significant.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.

It is not my nature when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles the oppression of tyranny to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers. I see how old they are inside. Like when I look at the president, or anybody in a record company, or a store owner, I may see a little boy behind the counter with the face of an old man. And that's who I talk to.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.