Body Language Quotes - Page 2

• Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Way, Language

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• 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.

  Jodelle Ferland

  Expression, Body, Speech

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

  Radclyffe Hall

  Mind, Body, Spirit

  Radclyffe Hall (1956). “The well of loneliness”, Anchor

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• Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.

  Cesar Millan

  Mistake, Language, Wrong Time

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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

  Vera Brosgol

  Character, Expression, Feelings

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• 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.

  Alan Lewis

  Thinking, Player, Trying

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• 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.

  Helen Fisher

  Reading, Voice, Matter

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

  Sandra Bartky

  Body, Hierarchy, Language

  Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

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• 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.

  Geoff Ryman

  Beautiful, Witty, Promise

  Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.167, Small Beer Press

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• I see tendencies, I see body language.

  Michael Chang

  Body, Language, Tendencies

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• Donald Trump doesn't have significant tells when he's lying because truth and lies to him are kind of homogenized. He's such a pro at it that you don't see a lot of divergence in his body language when he's lying or telling the truth. It's just constant bulls**t. He's probably a very good bluffer.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Lying, Language, Kind

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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.

  Ron Silver

  Motivation, Thinking, People

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

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Guy, Balls, Body

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• 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.

  Anne Parillaud

  Voice, Athletic, Essentials

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• 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.

  Delta Burke

  Real, Talking, Body

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• 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.

  Billy Campbell

  Eye, Giving, Trying

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Wish, Body

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

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Language, Methodology, Should

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1967). “Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior”, Mouton De Gruyter

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• 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.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Opposites, Boards, Body

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• 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.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Movie, Musical, Actors

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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

  Russell Baker

  Writing, Play, Roles

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• Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Animal, Expression

  "The Real “Horse Whisperer”". Interview with Andrew Howley, voices.nationalgeographic.org. June 16, 2011.

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

  Neil Strauss

  Kissing, Body, May

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• You see Bill Clinton, and you say: Oh, this guy cares about me. Hillary Clinton isn't the same way. You see her, and you don't necessarily have that view. She's trying to achieve the same thing without the voice and the body language, and she's having a harder time doing it. But when she's effective, that's what she's effective at.

  George Lakoff

  Guy, Trying, Care

  Source: truth-out.org

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• Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words  -  and this is the problem that they have with Americans  -  just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

  Howard Rheingold

  Communication, Technology, Japan

  Source: medium.com

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