Christopher Voss Quotes

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

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

The voice is a second face.

Tone matters more than words.

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

Conversation makes one what he is.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.

Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

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

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

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

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

Tone can be as important as text.