The next time you have a high-stakes meeting, a presentation, or an important social engagement, practice power posing beforehand to potently and powerfully impact your confidence.

We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don’t we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy.

ASK YOURSELF: Who are the people you are drawn to who bring out the best in you? How do they make you feel? Is your positive energy doing the same thing for others?

Upbeat people make us feel appreciated, important, and fantastic. These are the folks who expand and warm us with their positive energy.

How we feel with someone—if they improve our mood or cause our heart to sink—can determine the health of the relationship. How do you feel around them? It's a simple measurement tool.

What saps your energy and drains your strength? If it makes you feel bad on the inside, it will make those around you feel bad too! Don’t be the energy vampire whom people want to avoid.

Fuel Your Ride with Positive Energy. Having desire, vision, and focus will help you turn your bus in the right direction, and positive energy is needed to take you where you want to go.

Guard your energy by setting boundaries, just saying 'no, " and limiting your interactions with people who drain you. The measure—how do they make you feel?

Use positive affirmations to shift your mindset and re-train your brain for positivity.

Be in the Now Moment—don’t squander your energy on a past you can’t change or a future which has not yet happened.

We live in a universe made up of energy. The energy that binds, as it whirls and swirls physical atoms, exists at varying levels of vibration and frequency.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?

Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.

Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain't a man surely!

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.