Lynda Barry Quotes

Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

People often cover their mouths when lying. A hand on the mouth or even a touch of the lips shows you that they are lying because this unconscious body language represents a closing off of communication.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.

The body never lies.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.

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.

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.

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.

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.

I love observing both vocally and by sight. So I take on a lot of those elements of people around me.

Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

I pick up on other people's discomfort.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.

When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions.