Nonverbal Quotes

• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

  Edward Sapir

  Communication, Secret, Code

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• Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Communication, Our Words, Fundamentals

  Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.117, Vintage

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• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Communication

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Communication, Humor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• people's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues. the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like

  Daniel Goleman

  Keys, Expression, Voice

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.160, Bantam

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

  Charles Dickens

  Communication, Thought Provoking, Bravery

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• To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Communication

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 08, 2015

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• The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Kissing, Differences

  "Even Chimps Understand Sustainability". Interview with Philip Bethge and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. October 7, 2015.

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• Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.

  Nicole Williams

  People, Interviews, Underestimate

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Home, Expression, Using Words

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• Genuineness requires listening through both verbal and nonverbal channels.

  Joseph Michelli

  Positive, Listening, Genuineness

  Joseph Michelli (2013). “Starbucks Leadership Lessons”, p.43, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

  Betty Edwards

  Art, Long, Information

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• Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

  Amy Cuddy

  Motivation, Inspiration, Fake

  Amy Cuddy (2015). “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges”, Hachette UK

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• With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

  Laurie Helgoe

  Thinking, Body, Faces

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Art, Practice, May

  "We never talk any more: The problem with text messaging" by Jeffrey Kluger, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Heart, Brain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.'

  Temple Grandin

  Art, People, Giving

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• And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I really need, what I'm really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Heart, Brain, Needs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

  Simone Weil

  God, Wall, Communication

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.200, U of Nebraska Press

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• The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Views, Mysterious

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• When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

  Marina Abramovic

  Wall, Stranger, Conversation

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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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• The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

  Janet Echelman

  Art, Powerful, Hardest

  "Sculptures that engage your heart - and expand your mind". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 3, 2011.

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• Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

  Jane Goodall

  Helping, Patient, Behavior

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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