Jill Scott Quotes

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

I love observing people.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

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 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 used to make my living by understanding people. And the way I learned to understand them was by observing them. I would sit in a train station or a bus station or a restaurant. And I would watch people. I would watch how they related to one another. I would try to get some insight into them and make them as predictable as I could in my mind.

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.

I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.

William Regal once told us he people-watched when he was in the ring. He would see things that people would do. And if they annoyed him, chances are they would annoy someone else. A lot of times I'll just people watch when I'm traveling or at the airport or living everyday life.

I'm a people watcher, and I love to listen.

Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.

Your face and head give more information about you than any other body part.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

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.