Hip and partylike atmosphere -- the minute you walk in, you smile.
Typically, someone who is in agreement with you will smile and nod as you speak. (Disagreement shows up in compressed or pursed lips, clenched jaw muscles, or a head turned slightly away, so eye contact becomes sidelong.) But smiles are often used as a polite response and to cover up other emotions.
Things like the affectionate touch to your face, the knowing smile when you do something nice for someone, the tear in their eye when you are sad or have been hurt by life, the smile when you are happy and they are sharing in it, the arms that hold you close daily.
When you smile at someone, they almost always smile in return.
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But when you hold a pencil further back in your mouth, you are forced to smile.
From the moment you walk in the building, smile, be respectful, personable and professional at all times.
When you tell the locals you live in Asia, they smile broadly and tell a story about someone they know, or met or just ate with, who was from Asia.
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The next morning, the Libyan surgeon walked in with a "told you so" smile.
Jobs and his enigmatic half-smile were seemingly everywhere you looked in the days following his death from pancreatic cancer one year ago.
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'If you fall in, you'll probably get spit out eventually, ' he says with a smile.
"Every time you're in the grocery store, practice that smile, " Ms. Wood says she tells clients.
If your competitors are in denial, smile to yourself because you have identified a competitive advantage to steal their customers.
The only way around this is to put, and keep, a slight smile on your face whenever you are in front of a TV camera.
Mr. JERMAINE JACKSON: When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if you smile.
And when a campaigner tells you in his stump speech that he thinks taxes should be raised, smile sweetly and ask him how much he added to his tax bill last year.
" (I'd like coffee with milk.) To which he'd smile and reply in perfect English: "Would you prefer your milk cold, or steamed?
If you see a BRG convertible zipping alongside an orderly row of vehicles on the highway, music turned up loud, driven by a person with a smile on his face and no phone in reach, you'll know it's me.
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Right before the camera goes off, Ms. Yang says it's important to "put something in your mind that makes you genuinely happy" so that you'll smile with your eyes.
Your smile, your pizzazz and whatever charm you have will come through more to the host and producer in-person.
So with that much potential danger to be found in a whole bowl of cherries, if such an offer were made to you, why would you still smile with sweet anticipation?
"People who smile more tend to elicit more positive connections with other people, " which in turn help make you happier and healthier.
All in all, a happy California family, and if you expect to get a laugh, or even a fleeting smile, out of their wide range of dysfunctions, think again.
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