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

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.

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

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find the humanity in both of you and start from there.

My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.

No social stability without individual stability.

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly.

The opportunity to experience the parentchild bond when a person may have otherwise thought that he or she would not be able to do so can be a wonderful and welcome benefit of becoming part of a blended family.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

God did not create hurry.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

I am free.

Love is fragile. And were not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

When we make mistakes we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn't get past how manipulative it made me feel.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.