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Quotes About Eye contact

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
~ Douglas Coupland
I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.
~ Michael Musto
Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.
~ Dominic Monaghan
The common denominator among all these purveyors of insults, disrespect, and hate is a lack of eye contact with their targets—which seems to be the main reason that online assholes feel so unfettered by the empathy, guilt, and plain old civility that might stop or slow their wrath during face-to-face interactions.
~ Robert I. Sutton
Lenina'y? hem arzuluyor hem de bu arzudan utan?yordu. Lenina'ya lây?k deÄŸildi... Bir an gözleri buluÅŸtu, ne hazineler vaat ediyordu gözleri! Paha biçilmez hazineler.[...] Bir an gelir de kendini Lenina'ya lây?k hisseder diye belli belirsiz bir korkuya kap?ld?.
~ Aldous Huxley
When meeting for lunch somebody one's uncomfortable with, it's important to have somewhere to look, don't you agree?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
No one would have disputed [Ruth Bader Ginsburg's] intellect and seriousness, but the woman who wore her hair pulled back tightly in a short ponytail had a soft voice and had trouble looking people in the eye. She was also known for being so serious that as a youngster her daughter, Jane, made a booklet called 'Mommy Laughs' that recounted the rare episodes when her mother revealed her sense of humor.
~ Joan Biskupic
Um, Sophie? I have a face, you know," he added, and my eyes jerked up from his stomach.
~ Joanna Wylde
moment as the two men's gazes met, neither attempting
~ Anna Jacobs
Both my parents were educators, so interviews and college applications and shaking hands and looking people in the eye and feeling confident and knowing what you can bring to any project or audition - I've known about these things my entire life.
~ Vanessa Williams
As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
~ Karen Elson
There was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking—and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Across the distance between them, Bree's gaze met Mikkel's, and she did not blink.
~ Lois Walfrid Johnson
When he last went out, almost twenty-four years ago, he tried to make eye contact, to present what might be considered a normal appearance.
~ Anthony Doerr
In London, people don't make eye contact; it's almost too provocative.
~ Emily Beecham
Within ten minutes of meeting, we'd exchanged love letters from the corners of our eyes.
~ Forrest Gander
Their eyes met and held. As he passed, Matthias spoke low. The lady's mine.
~ Francine Rivers
There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.
~ Peng Liyuan
I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.
~ Sarah Shahi
But maintaining eye contact can also become a way of "acting spiritual" and, therefore, an intrusive affectation. There are also people who maintain rigid eye lock not from an attitude
~ Sam Harris
Psychopaths tend to make exceptionally good eye contact.
~ Sam Harris
Like some dogs, you don't want to catch his eye.
~ Sam Shepard
No staring into your puppy's eyes, because dogs view prolonged glares as confrontational, not instructional. Instead, keep looking over their head.
~ Sarah Hodgson
After a dog sniffs you over and accepts your nonthreatening posture, they'll likely retreat. If you need to move away, back away slowly and do not make eye contact with the dog.
~ Sarah Hodgson