Dating Quotes

Four elements to a great online presence: First, and most overlooked, a compelling username. Next comes your headline, or hook (generally a statement, not a questions, and is designed to arouse curiosity). Then your photo, and finally your stories. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

Your photo: Eye contact with the camera signals trust and openness; a genuine smile signals approachability, confidence, and happiness, and open body language signals you're open as a person. A lifestyle portrait generally looks more intimate when the subject is leaning (slightly) forward or sideways with one elbow on something, and when his or her shoulders are not as symmetrical as they would be in a passport photo. Look at a few fashion magazine covers and you'll see what I mean. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

Quick Profile-Writing Tips: 1. Write short paragraphs. 2. Keep it classy. 3. Never come out and say you're looking for a soul mate--it's scary to some people. 4. Periodically change your headline and copy, and update your photos at least once a year. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

Make a date as soon as you decide you might like someone (after three to five good e-mails). [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

Ask questions about what he or she likes to do in their spare time. Find out what music, movies, and TV shows he or she likes. Make sure your date does at least half of the talking. If you feel a connection, tell your date that you had a great time and would love to get together again. Don't ask him or her how he/she feels while you're together. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

Having dinner on a first date is a bad idea. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

Limit yourself to two dates a week. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

By upping your "value" in the early stage of a relationship, making you seem rare, precious, and worth pursuing. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

A woman can send sexual signals by licking her lips slightly, tracing the outline of her collar with her fingers, playing with her hair or jewelry, or running her hand down her thigh. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

Sign up for some classes. Even a one- or two-week program will do the trick. Skydiving, kickboxing, belly dancing, yoga, tennis, weight lifting, tae kwon do, rumba lessons--anything in which your body is 100 percent involved. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

At the heart of creating intimacy is self-disclosure. Basically, self-disclosure is revealing intimate information about yourself--your experiences, your ideas, your hopes, dreams, and feelings. In short: your stories. It's not a one-way street, though. The goal is that your partner offers the same kind of information about him- or herself. Sharing experiences is probably the least threatening form of self-disclosure. Sharing ideas involves more risk. Sharing feelings is the highest-risk kind of disclosure. Stay well away from discussing your previous dating and sexual entanglements, at least until you are fully committed to each other. And even then, trend lightly. A discussion of your romantic past can quickly slide into comparison, competition, and insecurity. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

The way you invite someone out is as important as the nature of the outing itself. The more fun, exciting, and unique you can make your invitation sound, the greater the chance of the invitee accepting it. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

Incidental touching is done with the hand and is brief, gentle, natural, and nonthreatening. You may touch the person's arm or shoulder but never anywhere that's overtly sexual (the breast, the butt, the inner thigh). Your first incidental touch should come around the time you are comfortable with medium-risk self-disclosure--preferably after you have laughed together and learned in to each other. If your well-timed and brief touch on the arm prompts a warm response, you can follow it with an appropriately-timed, incidental touch to the hand. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

You want to discover what the person enjoys about his daily experience, whether he is happy and why, how much his job means to him, and how involved he is at church or in other community activities. Pay close attention to information about family background, especially the relationships the person has with his or parents. You should want to know about the quality of the parents' marriage. It is good to know as much as you can about whether the parents enjoy each other or simply tolerate each other. [2002] - Neil Clark Warren

I encourage a couple to go together for two years before they decide to marry. [2002] - Neil Clark Warren

If he asked almost nothing about you, or if he moved the conversation abruptly in too many directions, this would clearly indicate significant problems. [2002] - Neil Clark Warren

Find somebody to love who is a lot like you. There are seven significant similarities: 1. Spiritual harmony. 2. Desire for verbal intimacy and ability to be intimate. 3. Level of energy. 4. Level of ambition. 5. Expectations about roles. 6. Interests. 7. Personal habits (punctuality, cleanliness, orderliness, dependability, responsibility, and weight management). [2002] - Neil Clark Warren

Look for a person who is ambitious, hardworking, determined, and reliable. Find the qualities you admire in a person when they are budding rather than they are in full bloom. Find a person whose dreams are likely to take them to the very place you also want to go. [2002] - Neil Clark Warren

You will always love the person most who helps us feel best about ourselves. You want to find someone who shines when you are together. [2002] - Neil Clark Warren

If a person has none of your can't-stand qualities, but you're unsure if he or she has your must-haves, take your time! [2002] - Neil Clark Warren