{"quotes":[{"text":"People who exude genuine charm \u0026 charisma seem to possess a heightened sensitivity to the feelings of others—delivering gentle manners, gracious compliments, and sincere interest.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["charisma","charm","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","motivational-speaker","relationship","self-confidence","self-esteem","susan-young"],"id":3181,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"Yes, learning curves can be painful, exhausting, trying, scary, and intimidating. How did you learn to ride a bike? One pedal, one balance, one turn, and one step at a time.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["charisma","charm","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","motivational-speaker","relationship","self-confidence","self-esteem","susan-young"],"id":5448,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"Self-confident people face their fears head-on and are willing to take risks.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["charisma","charm","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","motivational-speaker","relationship","self-confidence","self-esteem","susan-young"],"id":9430,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it wasn't her fault. There was something in her early days or whatever that made her incapable. She drove everybody away and people who really wanted to be friends ended up putting the phone down on her.It seemed to me as if she had to ape feelings and behaviour, like Ripley. Of course sometimes having no sense of social behaviour can be charming, but in her case it was alarming. I remember once, when she was trying to have a dinner party with people she barely knew, she deliberately leaned towards the candle on the table and set fire to her hair. People didn't know what to do as it was a very hostile act and the smell of singeing and burning filled the room.","author":"Andrew Wilson","tags":["alarming","ape","asperger-s","aspergers","aspergers-syndrome","autism","behaviour","burning","charm","charming","dinner-party","fault","feelings","fire","hostile","incapable","intimacy","misanthropic","misanthropy","people","relationship","singeing","social-behaviour","unbalanced"],"id":13973,"author_id":"Andrew+Wilson"},{"text":"Confidence is silent, cool, self-assurance.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["charisma","charm","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","motivational-speaker","relationship","self-confidence","self-esteem","susan-young"],"id":14433,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"Horse[Man you will find herea new representation of the universeat its most poetic and most modernMan man man man man manGive yourself up to this art where the sublimedoes not exclude charmand brilliancy does not blur the nuanceit is now or never the momentto be sensitive to poetry for it dominatesall dreadfullyGuillaume Apollinaire].","author":"Guillaume Apollinaire","tags":["art","charm","modern","modernity","poems","poetry","sublime"],"id":15876,"author_id":"Guillaume+Apollinaire"},{"text":"Building confidence is an ongoing process and something that can be accomplished over time.","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["charisma","charm","communication","communication-skills","first-impressions","motivational-speaker","relationship","self-confidence","self-esteem","susan-young"],"id":23373,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explaining it through science, doubtless making mistakes, but finding ingenious reasons, hidden grace and beauty, unknown charm and mystery in the various phenomena of Nature. God created only coarse beings, full of the germs of disease, who, after a few years of bestial enjoyment, grow old and infirm, with all the ugliness and all the want of power of human decrepitude.","author":"Guy de Maupassant","tags":["ageing","animal","art","charm","creation","decrepitude","disease","god","humanity","infirmity","mankind","mystery","nature","poetry","science"],"id":25022,"author_id":"Guy+de+Maupassant"},{"text":"He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["butter","charisma","charm","kipp","melt","odd-thomas","personality","smiles","toast"],"id":29039,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"There used to be a canny politician in the Hyde Park area in Chicago in which I at one time lived for several years. His slogan was 'I am for harmony if I have to use an axe.' As 'Secretary of Charm,' if and when my merits and ambitions are recognized by my appointment to that office, I will take a page out of old 'Doc' Jamieson's book. My motto will be 'I will have charm, even if I have to use a club.","author":"Beatrice Fairfax","tags":["charm","doc-jamieson","harmony","harold-l-ickes","humor","life","philosophy","politics"],"id":36714,"author_id":"Beatrice+Fairfax"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":147,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}