So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.
If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism. . . such a talent was Janis Joplin.
I think that natural beauty is very charismatic. . . I just believe in enhancing who we are rather than trying to manipulate or change it too much.
I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.
I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.
Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.
All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God
Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. It’s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.
Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism. Now it is clear that Israel needs a leadership that proceeds strongly toward peace, or else the extremist right will hijack the situation.
In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.
Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.
Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!
Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.
Have you ever wondered. . . how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists. . . but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.
Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
I've worked for years with Michael Kors, and he's just like this funny, charismatic guy.
Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.
Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.
