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.

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

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

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 took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.

I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish kids I admired Sandy Koufax. But I didn't look up to him as the one person who gave me the desire to push on and succeed. My brothers did that for me.

In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.

My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

From the first day to this sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.

Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders. Very quickly, he became for me a massive hero, and he introduced me to the world of a director.