Quotes About Body language

Nonverbal behaviors comprise approximately 60 to 65 percent of all interpersonal communication and, during lovemaking, can constitute 100 percent of communication between partners (Burgoon, 1994, 229–285).

A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.

I would never encourage anyone to adopt a contractive posture. It's not good for you physically. It's not good for you psychologically.

I don't really go on what people say so much; I go on their voice. I go on their energy at the time. I go on how close their arms are folded into their chest.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.

A horse, you know, they can't say, 'Hi? How are you? I'm so-and-so,' you know? So they communicate through typically smelling or, you know, just body language. And when a horse approaches another horse, the first thing they do is they smell noses.

I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters.

I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I can deliberately mold my message, not my voice. By my voice, whatever it says, the other will recognize "that something is wrong with me". I am a liar (by preterition), not an actor. My body is a stubborn child, my language is a very civilized adult...

When Tom Gau and I sat across from each other in his office, then, we almost immediately fell into physical and conversational harmony. We were dancing. Even before he attempted to persuade me with his words, he had forged a bond with me with his movements and his speech.

this is why Gottman has couples talk about something involving their marriage — like their pets — without being about their marriage. He looks closely at indirect measures of how the couple is doing: the telling traces of emotion that flit across one person's face; the hint of stress picked up in the sweat glands of the palm; a sudden surge in heart rate; a subtle tone that creeps into an exchange.

Americans don't really look at one another when talking. They talk to their reflections. They look at others or themselves only when they think nobody is watching. So they never see how they really look. They see themselves smiling without their mouth open, or turned to the side where they cannot see their faults.

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

I saw Rachel cross her eyes at Jessica, tilt her head to the side and stick her tongue out. If Jessica noticed, she didn't pay attention.

He that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist,While he that hears makes fearful actionWith wrinkled brows.Shakesp.King John.

What were you two talking about? she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut. Nothing, I said. Running. You should have seen your face, she said, her breath hot in my ear. Sa-woooon.

The mind-reading is only a human magical ability and knowledge to figure out someone's thoughts, emotions, and body language while spiritual inspiration comes from divine lights towards blessed people, there is the evil inspiration too. Between that, one has to use his wisdom to see and feel good and the bad.

To understand your beloved ones, you need to know feelings language, emotions-language, love-language, body language, compromise language, and lastly, the silent language that's the final step to journey, inwards the soul. Be patient with pure and sincere devotion that leads you together forever.

She put her hand to her head and was about to plead a headache when she glanced at Barbra, who gave her a look that said, I wouldn't if I were you...

Después le tendí el libro a Lila, le dije: ¿Quieres verlo? Ella respondió que no con la cabeza y una mueca displicente.

I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

Comedy is more an art of body language and gestures - it is more a performance of an artist than the lines given to him/her.

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.