Quotes about Body Language

Body language has no translation." Votes: 6

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking. Votes: 4

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes. Votes: 4

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words. Votes: 4

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do. Votes: 4

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over. Votes: 4

I speak two languages, Body and English. Votes: 3

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Votes: 3

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. Votes: 3

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. Votes: 3

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. Votes: 3

I can't just tell the guys I want the ball, I have to do it with my body language. Votes: 3

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally. Votes: 3

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere. Votes: 3

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. Votes: 3

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit. Votes: 3

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. Votes: 3

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. Votes: 3

In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't. Votes: 3

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement. Votes: 3

The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back. Votes: 3

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks. Votes: 3

Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect. Votes: 2

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language. Votes: 2

I love body language. Votes: 1

I love body language." Votes: 1

I see tendencies, I see body language. Votes: 1

I see tendencies, I see body language." Votes: 1

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in. Votes: 1

Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds." Votes: 1

My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly." Votes: 1

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection." Votes: 1

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language. Votes: 1

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language." Votes: 1

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose." Votes: 1

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language. Votes: 1

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian." Votes: 1

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on." Votes: 1

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills." Votes: 1

When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!" Votes: 1

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally." Votes: 1

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square." Votes: 1

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself." Votes: 1

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home." Votes: 1

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking." Votes: 1

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken." Votes: 1

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man." Votes: 1

The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes." Votes: 1

I'm bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned." Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't. Votes: 1

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't." Votes: 1

I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people. Votes: 1

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]" Votes: 1

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero. Votes: 1

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong. Votes: 1

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes." Votes: 1

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence." Votes: 1

Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying." Votes: 1

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words." Votes: 1

There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music. Votes: 1

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement." Votes: 1

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true." Votes: 1

It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do." Votes: 1

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking. Votes: 1

I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it's 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world." Votes: 1

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions. Votes: 1

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to." Votes: 1

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language." Votes: 1

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks." Votes: 1

I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay. Votes: 1

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. Votes: 1

Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body." Votes: 1

I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing -- writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like." Votes: 1

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us." Votes: 1

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over." Votes: 1

Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit. Votes: 1

I suspect you of being one of those dangerous types who innocently give good body language to everyone. The type of girl who should have someone walking 10 paces in front of her with a red flashing light and a clanging bell. Just my type." Votes: 1

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity." Votes: 1

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work." Votes: 1

Dehaene even allows himself a few moments of (justifiable) annoyance at the way that "childhood reading experts" continue their debates about the best strategies for teaching reading to children in complete ignorance of a large and growing body of work on how the human brain processes written language." Votes: 1

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms." Votes: 1

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong." Votes: 1

Emotional leakage refers to emotional information that we pass on to others through our body language. This information might be conveyed unintentionally, through a threatening gaze, a haughty stare, or a cold or aloof manner. These micro-expressions may be fleeting, but audiences are able to detect them. Guard against emotional leakage." Votes: 1

X, n.Doesn't it strike you as strange that we have a letter in the alphabet that nobody uses? It represents one-twenty-sixth of the possibility of our language, and we let it languish. If you and I really, truly wanted to change the world, we'd invent more words that started with x." Votes: 1

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together." Votes: 1

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together. Votes: 1

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together." Votes: 1

The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets." Votes: 1

How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my "indicators of humbleness" list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now)." Votes: 1

My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand.I waited.But Grace, the only person in the world I wanted to know me, just ran a wanting finger over the cover of one of the new hardcovers and walked out of the store without ever realising I was there, right within reach." Votes: 1

I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema. Votes: 1

I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema." Votes: 1

But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?" Votes: 1

Nobody over here [in England] says 'six-thirty' or 'seven-thirty', they say 'hoppussix' and 'hoppusseven'. And 'in' at home is 'trendy' here and 'give it up' is 'pack it in' and 'never mind!' is 'not to worry!' ... and as Shaw once observed, we are two countries divided by a common language. I am now going to bed because it's quataposstwelve." Votes: 1

All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it. You just need to pay attention to it and gain experience over the years." Votes: 1

Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. 'I feel good here': the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice." Votes: 1

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." Votes: 1

I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own." Votes: 1

There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawaterbegs the pearl to break its shell.and the lily, how passionatelyit needs some wild darling! Atnight, I open the window and askthe moon to come and press itsface against mine. Breathe intome. Close the language door andopen the lovers window. The moonwon't use the door, only the window." Votes: 1

I know, for me, that I have always been very conscious of how I dress when I go to the studio, I'm very conscious of my body language when I'm working - a lot of times, I'm the only female in the room. It's a very male-dominated profession. I'm always around guys. Guys are going to try you all day, and they're going to flirt all day. Votes: 1

That's just like the manual says,' said WitherwaxIf we want to have international brotherhood, we gotta get a language that everybody understands all the time.''You mean with no homonyms?' said Doc Brenner.Mr. Gross belched again, and held up two fingers to indicate another Boilermaker. 'Are you saying that the language a fella speaks can make a fairy of him?' ("Gin Comes In Bottles")" Votes: 1

Your body language shapes who you are Votes: 0

Body language is more powerful than words. Votes: 0

I can read your body language like a conversation Votes: 0

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. Votes: 0

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body. Votes: 0

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. Votes: 0

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul. Votes: 0

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words. Votes: 0

You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception. Votes: 0

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within. Votes: 0

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it. Votes: 0

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender. Votes: 0

People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right. Votes: 0

I tried telling him without telling him, through body language, and I observed he was unobservant. Votes: 0

...their voices are quieter than the other groups around them, but their body language speaks volumes. Votes: 0

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language Votes: 0

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning. Votes: 0

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills. Votes: 0

Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors. Votes: 0

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating. Votes: 0

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious. Votes: 0

Would you look at that body language? Legs crossed towards each other. That is an unequivocal sex invite. Votes: 0

Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit. Votes: 0

In a battle of believability, the winner is the one with the best body language, not the clearest logic. Votes: 0

Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself. Votes: 0

[Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me. Votes: 0

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul. Votes: 0

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought. Votes: 0

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear. Votes: 0

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual. Votes: 0

The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message. Votes: 0

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious. Votes: 0

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. Votes: 0

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player. Votes: 0

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved. Votes: 0

The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. Votes: 0

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions. Votes: 0

I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement I'm a physical actor. Votes: 0

I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement... I'm a physical actor. Votes: 0

Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource. Votes: 0

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy. Votes: 0

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. Votes: 0

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind. Votes: 0

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body. Votes: 0

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. Votes: 0

Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language. Votes: 0

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes. Votes: 0

When preparing a role, I work first on the body language and physical aspects of the performance; the psychological dimension comes naturally once I'm in character. Votes: 0

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports. Votes: 0

Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance. Votes: 0

Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes our selves completely. Votes: 0

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity. Votes: 0

Each moment, breath is nourishing millions and millions of cells in our body.Listen to its language, interpret its words and enter into the mystery of life. Votes: 0

Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body. Votes: 0

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.) Votes: 0

I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Coach Cunningham's my guy. Without me saying a word, he can read my body language and facial expressions and tell me exactly what I'm thinking and feeling. We're actually very similar people. Votes: 0