Kristian Nairn Quotes

I love body language.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

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.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

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.

I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

You don't need words to express feelings.

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

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.

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

I like my hands. They do most of the 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.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

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.

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

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

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.