People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. — John C. Maxwell
Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The hand expresses what the heart already knows. — Samuel Mockbee
The way we live often speaks far louder than our words. — Billy Graham
It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send. — Pete Carroll
An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words. — Sanford Meisner
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. — Mark Hopkins
People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances. — Jeremy Collier
The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel. — Lou Ferrigno
Body Language Image Quotes
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. — Abraham Maslow
Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
Nonverbal Quotes
Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it. — Amy Cuddy
Truly effective negotiators are conscious of the verbal, paraverbal — Chris Voss
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations. — B. F. Skinner
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all. — Edward Sapir
people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like — Daniel Goleman
The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist. — Jane Goodall
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. — Kenneth Lee Pike
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. — Kenneth L. Pike
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall. — Marina Abramovic
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information. — Betty Edwards
Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena. — Buck Brannaman
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual. — John Towner Williams
If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on. — Martin Parr
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. — Italo Calvino
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit. — Radclyffe Hall
Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the body and the soul. — Peter Shepherd
Body language shows everything. — Jake Paul
Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language. — David Attenborough
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. — Elizabeth Kostova
Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body. — Wangechi Mutu
The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. — Marguerite Duras
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. — John Brown
Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own. — Ibrahim Farah
A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind. — Wade Davis
I see more now. As far as concepts, I know where teammates are going, linemen are going. I can read defensive fronts. I can read the body language of linebackers. I study film to see who's a bull rusher and who's a finesse rusher. I think I've learned. — Brandon Jacobs
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language. — Afrojack
The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. — Paul Eluard
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious. — Wilfred Owen
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed. — Siri Hustvedt
I can read your body language like a conversation — Dom Kennedy
... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement. — Edward T. Hall
It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero. — Akshay Kumar
Your body language shapes who you are — Amy Cuddy
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement. — Aldous Huxley
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. — Clarice Lispector
I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally. — Analeigh Tipton
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words. — Deborah Bull
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. — Helen Fisher
Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson said, it can blow the top of your head off. Poetic language is sometimes misunderstood as "abstract" when in reality, it's precise - precisely the language of emotions and the body. — Lidia Yuknavitch
It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music. — Natalia Makarova
He was dancing to some music No one else had ever heard He'd speak in unknown languages She would translate every word And then when the world was laughing At his castles in the sky She'd hold him in her body Till he once again could fly. — Harry Chapin
Donald Trump doesn't have significant tells when he's lying because truth and lies to him are kind of homogenized. He's such a pro at it that you don't see a lot of divergence in his body language when he's lying or telling the truth. It's just constant bulls**t. He's probably a very good bluffer. — Daniel Negreanu
Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor's capital is his body. — Wim Wenders
The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists. — Alan Watts
I speak two languages, Body and English. — Mae West
A dominant dog can get another dog to move out of its way just by the energy it projects. You can tell a lot about a dog's position in the pack by how they hold themselves around other dogs. When reading a dog's body language, you can't do it intellectually. You can only do it by using your instincts. — Cesar Millan
You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red. — Rose Leslie
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