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

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.

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.

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

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

When you have bacon in your mouth it doesnt matter whos president or anything. Every time Im eating bacon I think I could die right now and I mean it. Thats how good life is.

Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

It's just golf. As long as I get done without breakin' somethin' or hurtin' somebody, that's my goal.

Prague is not rife in Asian culture.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

If you define the problem correctly you almost have the solution.

From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

If someone asks me a question, it is very difficult not to answer honestly.

Every other fashion brand out there - including those that I call 'competitors' - are run by mostly old white men, and the customer knows it.

We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.

I can be very serious, but if I'm being honest, I'm very happy with the way my life has turned out.

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Line up a group of Horace Mann students, interview them, and take a look at their resumes, and you'll be hard pressed to pick out the students who require extra time. So then, what qualifies these students to receive special accommodations on the SAT?