John C. Maxwell Quotes

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Don't be negative. It shows on your face.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

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

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

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

Isn't it annoying when your face doesn't do what you want it to express?

It's actually more work for me to not smile than to smile.

You know the thing about a picture being worth a thousand words? A look can be worth a million.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

...smile first, then speak.

One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.

Let your face speak what's in your heart.

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.