Amy Poehler Quotes

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.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

The one thing that robots really find difficult to do is to look someone in the eye and have a sense of how they're feeling. We should be teaching that in schools.

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.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

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.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

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 love body language.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

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.

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.

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

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

I've always been a keen observer of people.

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.