Amy Cuddy

Preparation is obviously important, but at some point, you must stop preparing content and start preparing mindset. You have to shift from what you’ll say to how you’ll say it.

Amy Cuddy

Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.

Amy Cuddy

When we stop looking after our own posture, we are abandoning ourselves.

Amy Cuddy

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

Amy Cuddy

All changes have their melancholy.

Amy Cuddy

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

If you’re protecting yourself against harm – emotional harm or humiliation – you can’t be present, because you’re too protected.

Amy Cuddy

In a sense, speaking in an unhurried way allows us time to communicate clearly, without runaway social anxieties inhibiting us from presenting our true selves.

Amy Cuddy

In short, our body language, which is often based on prejudices, shapes the body language of the people we’re interacting with.

Amy Cuddy

It’s not difficult to be nice. It’s not ‘going above and beyond,’ to treat people with decency. And being a jerk isn’t an ‘innocent mistake’ that most people make. It’s easily avoidable. By not doing it.

Amy Cuddy