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Quotes About Eye contact

When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.
~ Amanda de Cadenet
Flannery still wouldn't look at me. I didn't like that. Flannery was the kind of guy who lived for the Willy Loman world of shined shoes and eye contact. I knew the type. I didn't want anything to do with them, but I knew them.
~ Harlan Coben
I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
~ Jack Nicholson
My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you're spoken to. You look people in the eye when they address you and when you address them back.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.
~ Dove Cameron
Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.
~ Brad Meltzer
As I sat in my chair, her gaze followed me. I adjusted the fit of my headset and paused when I realized she was staring. She liked looking at me.
~ Sylvia Day
So it's not that autistics don't respond to eye contact, it's that their response is the opposite of neurotypicals'.
~ Temple Grandin
Our eyes met and I felt a surprising ripple of pleasure run through me.
~ Julianne MacLean
When I look someone in the eye, they are immediately smitten with me.
~ David Otunga
In '24,' you spend so much time with your faces really close, eye contact with such intensity.
~ Annie Wersching
Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you.
~ Frederick Lenz
I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.
~ Robert J. Crane
A clever companion—had she ever had one—would have warned her never to look a man in the eyes so steadily.
~ Theodore Dreiser
It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.
~ Rik Mayall
My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' and that's just something I've been doing for a long time.
~ Adrian Peterson
Then he suddenly looked back at me. "I see you." You always did, I thought, watching sparks dance in his eyes.
~ Karen Chance
But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers - on the street, in elevators, in subways - were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year.
~ Kate Jacobs
A.J. finds that he cannot make eye contact with either his daughter or Lambiase. It is twenty-nine degrees, but shame is keeping him warm.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It was still a novel and vertiginous experience for them to look for a minute on end into the eyes of another adult, without embarrassment or restraint.
~ Ian Mcewan
I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.
~ Ilona Andrews
You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.
~ Marcia Gay Harden
I actually met Donald Trump and shook his hand and looked him in the eye, and it tells me a lot when you look a person in the eye. He's a man's man first and foremost; you know, you can't pretty much, you know, put him to the side and expect anything less than a good fight.
~ Booker T
Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.
~ Raymond Arroyo