Amy Cuddy Quotes

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

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

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

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.

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.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

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

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

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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

I used to make my living by understanding people. And the way I learned to understand them was by observing them. I would sit in a train station or a bus station or a restaurant. And I would watch people. I would watch how they related to one another. I would try to get some insight into them and make them as predictable as I could in my mind.

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.