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.

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.

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

As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.

The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.

The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

Immigrants have historically been an entrepreneurial bunch.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

I believe in the Bible, and I believe in Jesus. It's a big part of my life.

Out of the bitter experiences of the panic of 1819 emerged the beginnings of the Jacksonian movement, dedicated to hard money, the eradication of fractional reserve banking in general, and of the Bank of the United States in particular.

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

The sea is my business.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.

If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The spark divine dwells in thee let it grow.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.