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… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
“A warm, trustworthy person who is also strong elicits admiration, but only after you’ve established trust does your strength become a gift rather than… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
There is no one who is present all the time, but you work on becoming present when you are interacting with people who are… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
“the root of our human frustration and daily anxiety is our tendency to live for the future, which is an abstraction,” and that “our… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
That's the dream scenario: when people approach these stressful situations not focused on that concrete outcome but just focused on being there and being… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes. — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
I hear from so many women who really started to pay attention to it at all times and stopped, you know, touching their faces… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
You have to buy what you're selling. If you don't buy what you're selling, nobody will. — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel. — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
When you have a novel, exciting finding, that gets attention. People are going to push back, and that's honestly how science should work. — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are. — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you if you're… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
