Sally Hogshead Quotes

#1. I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.

Luke Evans

#2. Busted," she said. "You pretend to be all rough and tough, but on the inside you're a big softie."
"I guarantee you there is nothing soft

Robin Bielman

#3. I'll do the black magic. Then, I'll hand you the wand.

Sally Hogshead

#4. You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.

Jerry A. Coyne

#5. Fascination takes many forms, but all tap into instinctive triggers, such as the need to hunt, to control, to feel secure, to nurture and be nurtured. Some fascinations last only a heartbeat, while others last beyond a seventy-fifth wedding anniversary.

Sally Hogshead

#6. When you stop trying to be all things to all people, you can stop worrying about being liked and start building relationships that allow you to be loved. If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.

Sally Hogshead

#7. The enemy of teamwork is individualism. As a team, the whole has to be greater than the sum of every individual part. The only way to do that is to work together. You can go a lot farther pulling together than you can with individual people pulling separately.

Jeff Duke

#8. Psychologists suggest that when people are no longer in charge of basic elements of a situation (such as where they sit, or when they go to the restroom), they must give over some degree of control that they normally use to define their independence, and thus themselves.

Sally Hogshead

#9. The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn

#10. Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

Jacki Weaver

#11. Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.

Sally Hogshead

#12. The addictive nature of Web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds - the same as a goldfish.

Sally Hogshead

#13. You don't need to find the light, you ARE the light; and when you let your personality shine you can light up the world.

Sally Hogshead

#14. The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing.

Quentin Crisp

#15. Messages that fail to fascinate will become irrelevant.

Sally Hogshead

#16. I get angry at a principle, not a person.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#17. But over time, people can lose their innate ability to fascinate. They acquire layers of boring.

Sally Hogshead

#18. Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

Shirley Chisholm

#19. Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

Yara Shahidi

#20. You don't have to learn to be fascinating, you have to learn to be unboring.

Sally Hogshead

#21. Forbes describes how Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, discovered that "people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather than someone they don't, even if the likeable person is offering a lower quality product or service at a higher price.

Sally Hogshead

#22. Republicans: the party that brought us 'Just Say No.' First as a drug policy, then as their entire platform.

Stephen Colbert