"If you have that spark that inspires other people, if you have a spark that gives resources to other people, that shares in really collaborative fashion, a spark of wit that kind of tells a story that gives people novel perspective of something, that's the kind of charisma that really leads to lasting power. It's not the kind of charisma that's seductive and self-aggrandizing. It's really a sort of a kind of social energy that really brings about the best in other people."

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Dacher Keltner

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“The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.”
“No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.”

Source : WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT (1858). “BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES”, p.588
“A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Majesty, I beg your forgiveness for the idignity you suffered and offer you the head of our enemy asâ€”" "Put that thing down," I said impatiently. "I can't talk to you when you're shaking his head like a damned maraca.”

Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.225, Penguin
“Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.”
“To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.”
“The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.”
“When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.”

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