Paulo Coelho Quotes

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.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

It's kind of amazing how well you can get to know someone without talking.

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've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

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.

I love body language.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

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.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

I'm good at reading people.

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

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

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.

I don't really go on what people say so much; I go on their voice. I go on their energy at the time. I go on how close their arms are folded into their chest.

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.

The art of reading physical tells isn't an exact science.

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

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

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.