Amy Cuddy Quotes
Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.
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I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
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With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
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If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
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Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.
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Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
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If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.
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Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.
