Edgar Degas Quotes

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

I think you can actually express a lot more in ways without words.

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

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."

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Your face and head give more information about you than any other body part.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

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.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

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.

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.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

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.

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

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

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

There's this little recipe that you have to hit pretty well to get somebody to laugh. And it's a combination of the way in which you say something, with the facial expression that you have, married with the body language that you have, etc.

Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.

I did realise that when you talk with a straight face, you come across as someone bolder than somebody who bats her eyelids a lot.