Paulo Coelho Quotes

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

She was a genius at listening.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

You're not listening with your eyes.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

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.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

I'm good at reading people.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I've been able to read people real good throughout my life.