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.

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.

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

If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.

There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

When I was young, all I wanted to do was to compete, have fun and travel.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.

The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

Traffic terrifies me.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.

Let Catholics build their own churches and works.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.

Rather lose love than to move on never knowing what it felt like.