Body Language Quotes - Page 3

• % of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

  Deborah Bull

  Body, Conversation

  "The power of good presentation: body language" by Donna Warrick, www.jamessonsolutions.com. June 15, 2017.

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• There are four different kinds of power in a communication: position power (the CEO talking to her direct reports), emotion power (passion sometimes rules the day), expertise (people often listen to the most knowledgeable person in the room), and conversational power (the subtlest, this is the ability to direct the conversation through body language).

  Nick Morgan

  Communication, Passion, Talking

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

  Christina Ricci

  Body, Language, Environment

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• Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

  Anton Corbijn

  Important, Body, Language

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

  Marge Piercy

  Reading, Cat, Body

  Source: margepiercy.com

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• Would you look at that body language? Legs crossed towards each other. That is an unequivocal sex invite.

  Cher

  Sex, Clueless, Looks

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• Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.

  Tom Kelley

  Play, Innovation, Culture

  Tom Kelley (2016). “The Art Of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm”, p.296, Profile Books

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• 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

  Dog, Moving, Reading

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, Dad, Father

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Sex, Mean, Expression

  Robert C. Solomon (1987). “From Hegel to Existentialism”, p.130, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Moving On, Photography, Long

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• My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other signals human beings give out - body language or what Freud graphically called the "betrayal that oozes out of him at every pore," betrayal, that is, of what they really mean. I have that to this day, and it makes conversation exhausting because I'm listening not just to the words of the person in front of me but also to their body. It's as if there are two radio stations on at the same time.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Betrayal, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you're about three years old, you start to learn how to be manipulative. I know this from my own experience - I created this expression between sadness and dissatisfaction to get people to make me feel better, to get me presents. I created this face based on movies without even understanding it. I felt attracted to faces and body language. I remember I was always fascinated with why some people are considered beautiful and some are not. Everybody's got two eyes and one nose, but it's the small details. It is why we fall in love or why we want to kill somebody we haven't even spoken to.

  Nir Hod

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Sadness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My natural state is one that's affected by the shortage of dopamine production in my brain. So my natural state is to be halting and at times tremulous and kind of just physically disturbed. I mean, that's my natural state, given the situation in my brain. But I'm always as happy either way. And so when it comes to me, body language lies.

  Michael J. Fox

  Lying, Mean, Brain

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• I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel really sort of uncomfortable, almost as though you were buying into a situation - which, again, is another way of looking at those paintings. The body language in those paintings is a lot more stiff.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Pay, Way, Buying

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute people speak their body language, it is true speaking rather than handicap, this is the first word and the first writing. Thus to me, the body is fundamental.

  Paul Virilio

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the hole had opened so wide that I'd fallen through. The body language in those photos tells you everything.

  George Carlin

  Coke, Body, Awful

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• [Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me.

  Eric Bolling

  Body, Stuff, Language

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• By studying psychology i want to be a better actor. There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Fun, Psychology, Emotion

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations . . . work together.)

  Suzanne Yoculan

  Team, Heart, Gymnastics

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• When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I could not do many of the things that most people take for granted, such as looking someone in the eye or deciphering a person's body language, and only acquired these skills with much effort over time.

  Daniel Tammet

  Children, Eye, Intelligent

  "Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• I want guys who want to be here. I want guys who are energetic and passionate. I didn't see any passion from Todd. You could tell form his body language that he didn't want to be here.

  Perry Florio

  Passion, Guy, Body

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• I hear from so many women who really started to pay attention to it at all times and stopped, you know, touching their faces and necks and playing with their hair and twisting their legs. I think women become more aware of it when they learn about this stuff, and you see their body language change.

  Amy Cuddy

  Thinking, Hair, Touching

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language.

  Paulo Freire

  Attention, Body, Pay

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• My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world.

  Charlaine Harris

  Mother, Children, Reading

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.53, Penguin

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