Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you. — 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… — 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… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others. — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
Power is generally defined as control over resources and control over access to resources, which often means control over other people because… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
Charisma seems to be more about the intoxicating quality that you have on other people, as opposed to presence, which is more… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
People judge you really quickly, at first just on your facial features. There are two dimensions - warmth and competence. You can… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
I've been studying sexism for many years, and it's much easier to document the existence of sexism than it is to document… — 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… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
My primary goal is really to get people to open up and when they feel themselves contracting and collapsing to reduce that,… — 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… — Amy Cuddy Copy Share Image
People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational… — 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
