Use your eyes–strong eye contact gives the impression of respect and affection. It also gives the impression of being an abstract thinker.

Smile big at the right time. Women who were slower to smile in the corporate world are perceived as more credible.

The flooding smile: when meeting someone, don’t smile right away. Pause for a moment, then let a big flooding smile go over your mouth and eyes. This will give them the impression that the smile is more genuine

The sticky eyes technique: hold your gaze as much as possible. When talking about personal matters with another men, hold your gaze a little less.

The epoxy see eyes technique: hold gaze on the subject even when another party is speaking. Conveys intense confidence and interest in the subject. Use with caution.

Watch your posture whenever you walk through a doorway. Hold your head high, your shoulders back, and your torso out. This will convey confidence and command respect.

I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

Run, Forrest, run!

Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

The better you feel the more in alignment you are. The worse you feel the more out of alignment you are.

When two hearts become one it cannot be undone. A promise has been made and cannot be broken or swayed. For this love will last an eternity and will not fade.

Somewhere in the depths of soltitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.

After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.

The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever and with unequal distribution of resources.

I have respect for beer.

Personal development is essential for a positive mindset, self-motivational, increasing self-belief and raising your standards.

You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go home. And I kind of like that. If you're really good, and you're the best guy in the room that day, you get the job.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

I only pay to take my son to the movies, because most of the time I only watch European movies, independent movies, or screen them privately. But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.