"He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you."

-- Walter Isaacson

#Crush Quotes #Knowing Quotes #People Quotes

“Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.”
“The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.”

Source : Speech to National Convention of Woman Suffrage Association,Washington, D.C., 16 - 17 Jan. 1877
“Leadership is something I was born with.”
“The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority”
“I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.”
“Cycling to work is an important issue for business - the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.”
“I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no organized force in the country that is capable of competing with the VCP for power. And the party still believes that it must rule by intimidation and by dominating the political scene In effect, it has abandoned that part of Ho Chi Minh's legacy that the people must be won over by persuasion rather than by force - a dictum that Ho Chi Minh did not always follow himself.”
“No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.”

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