Dacher Keltner famous quotes

The truest you can be is taking off those clothes.
-- Dacher Keltner

#Clothes #Truest

Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.
-- Dacher Keltner

#Giving #Care #Humans

Studies have shown touch to be the primary language of compassion, love and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation - even more than facial expressions and voice. Touch is the central medium in which the goodness of one individual can spread to another. Touch is the original contact high.
-- Dacher Keltner

#Gratitude #Heart #Compassion

If you want to get power, listen carefully. Don't be impulsive. Don't arrogantly insert your opinion. Express gratitude. Cultivate a culture of respect. Show your respect for other people's efforts. Promote a culture of equality, too, where everybody's opinion matters. Tell stories.
-- Dacher Keltner

#Gratitude #Effort #Culture

The power paradox is that we gain power by advancing the welfare of other people and yet when we feel powerful, it turns us into impulsive sociopaths and we lose those very skills. If you're in the military, you gain power by forging strong ties in your comrades. And then the irony is that once we feel powerful and we are taken with our own success, we ignore the skills that got us power in the first place.
-- Dacher Keltner

#Strong #Powerful #Military

When people tell stories that unite the community or the organization that they work for and illustrate the principles of that organization, those people rise in the social standing in that group. They rise in power.
-- Dacher Keltner

#People #Community

If you have that spark that inspires other people, if you have a spark that gives resources to other people, that shares in really collaborative fashion, a spark of wit that kind of tells a story that gives people novel perspective of something, that's the kind of charisma that really leads to lasting power. It's not the kind of charisma that's seductive and self-aggrandizing. It's really a sort of a kind of social energy that really brings about the best in other people.
-- Dacher Keltner

#Fashion #People #Giving

When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

The truest success is but the development of self.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.

Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.