Quotes About Nonverbal

When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.

Don't believe on, "143 in written, " Because words contribute only 7% in communication!

Body language speaks much more succinctly and honestly than mere spoken words.

Facial expression.

If he wanted the chair you were in, he stood there, silent, looking at the sitter until you got the message and got up.

Nick demonstrated twenty-three ways of communicating without words by fanning himself with a napkin. "This one means oops, your fly is open, sir, and if you lower the fan a little and look at someone over the top of it, it means wow, I'd like to marry you. But if you do it the other way around, it means ha ha, we are now at war with Spain.

Expression, voice, and even gestures can tell one much that is not revealed in words.

Even without words, you communicate through touch, body language, and facial expression.

7 percent of a person's message is conveyed through words and 93 percent is conveyed nonverbally (38 percent vocal tone; 55 percent body language).

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

This is the way I like it, when you get going there's just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

I let the dunks speak for themselves.

To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

I think my body language and how I carry myself speaks for me as a person.

With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.