Cuddy Quotes

#1. Silverfish: "He disappeared a few years ago."
"Disappeared? How? said Cuddy.
"We think," said Silverfish, leaning closer, "that he found a way of making himself invisible."
"Really?"
"Because," said Silverfish, nodding conspiratorially, "no-one has seen him.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Silverfish looked down.
"Oh. Are you a dwarf?"
Cuddy gave him a blank stare.
"Are you a giant?" He said.
"Me? Of course not!"
"Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

Terry Pratchett

#3. He speaks in a deep, calm, resonant voice. He is honest and humble yet confident and strong. He never rushes. He does not fear pauses, and because he doesn't fear them, neither do we. That's how presence begets presence.

Amy Cuddy

#4. Somehow they stayed that way
For those 5 days in May
Made all the stars around them shine
Funny how you can look in vain
Living on nerves and such sweet pain
The loneliness that cuts so fine
To find the face you've seen a thousand times

Blue Rodeo

#5. It's hard to keep your head when the ground's moving 'neath your feet

Jim Cuddy

#6. focus less on the impression you're making on others and more on the impression you're making on yourself.

Amy Cuddy

#7. Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.

Amy Cuddy

#8. When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. ... We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

Amy Cuddy

#9. When we close ourselves off, we're not just closing ourselves off to other people, we're closing ourselves off from ourselves and impeding ourselves. When you open up, you allow yourself to be who you are.

Amy Cuddy

#10. preparation is obviously important, but at some point, you must stop preparing content and start preparing mind-set. You have to shift from what you'll say to how you'll say it.

Amy Cuddy

#11. we can certainly understand and identify with one. And the more vivid that one, the better.

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#12. All changes have their melancholy

Amy Cuddy

#13. you execute with comfortable confidence and synchrony, and you leave with a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment, regardless of the measurable outcome.

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#14. We convince by our presence," and to convince others we need to convince ourselves.

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#15. Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way.

Amy Cuddy

#16. You never figure out how to write a novel; you just learn how to write the novel that you're on.

Amy Cuddy

#17. When our body language is confident and open, other people respond in kind, unconsciously reinforcing not only their perception of us but also our perception of ourselves.

Amy Cuddy

#18. Presence emerges when we feel personally powerful, which allows us to be acutely attuned to our most sincere selves.

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#19. My primary goal is really to get people to open up and when they feel themselves contracting and collapsing to reduce that, and to know when that happens, "Oh, something's going on that's making me feel this way, and if I force my body open a bit, I will feel less powerless."

Amy Cuddy

#20. It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

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#21. the strongest predictor of who got the money was not the person's credentials or the content of the pitch. The strongest predictors of who got the money were these traits: confidence, comfort level, and passionate enthusiasm.

Amy Cuddy

#22. Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.

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#23. Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.

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#24. Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

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#25. Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

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#26. I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what's happening on the research front.

Amy Cuddy

#27. Somebody waits for the time I know will never come
You get yourself so high
Then you come down feeling blue
One day you'll wake up and realize you've had enough
There's a thousand shining moments
Waiting just to happen to you

Blue Rodeo

#28. Powerful people initiate speech more often, talk more overall, and make more eye contact while they're speaking than powerless people do. When we feel powerful, we speak more slowly and take more time. We don't rush. We're not afraid to pause. We feel entitled to the time we're using.

Amy Cuddy

#29. Your body language shapes who you are

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#30. Power is generally defined as control over resources and control over access to resources, which often means control over other people because we're thinking about things like financial resources or shelter, or even love and affection, but we also possess resources that we sometimes can't access.

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#31. Sometimes the world begins
To set you up on your feet again
It wipes the tears from your eyes
How will you ever know
The way that circumstances go
Always going to hit you by surprise
I know my past
You were there
In everything I've done
You are the one

Blue Rodeo

#32. A confident person - knowing and believing in her identity - carries tools, not weapons.

Amy Cuddy

#33. Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.

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#34. Entrepreneurs' grounded enthusiasm is contagious, stimulating a high level of commitment, confidence, passion, and performance in the people who work for and with them.

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#35. When you're excited, Brooks explained, "it primes an opportunity mindset, so you think of all of the good things that can happen. You're more likely to make decisions and take actions that will make [good results] likely to occur."16

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#36. Pleasure built upon pleasure, the certainty of my ability amplifying with each new trial.

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#37. A truly confident person does not require arrogance, which is nothing more than a smoke screen for insecurity.

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#38. A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.

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#39. I hear from so many women who really started to pay attention to it at all times and stopped, you know, touching their faces and necks and playing with their hair and twisting their legs. I think women become more aware of it when they learn about this stuff, and you see their body language change.

Amy Cuddy

#40. Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

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#41. Presence is removing judgment, walls, and masks so as to create a true and deep connection with people or experiences. - Pam,

Amy Cuddy