Elizabeth Abathan

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

“Anxiety gets sticky and destructive when we start becoming anxious about being anxious. Paradoxically, anxiety also makes us more self-centered, since when we’re acutely anxious, we obsess over ourselves and what others think of us.23”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

“It was divine because it was exactly you. It was the very best you—the strongest most generous you.”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

“social power is power over—the capacity to control others’ states and behaviors. Personal power is power to—the ability to control our own states and behaviors. This is the kind of power Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel was referring to when he wrote, “Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.” Ideally, we want both kinds of power, but, as Wiesel suggests, personal power—the state of being in command of our most precious and authentic inner resources—is uniquely essential. Unless and until we feel personally powerful, we cannot achieve presence, and all the social power in the world won’t compensate for its absence.”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges