Eugene Ormandy Quotes

Accent [emphasis] is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth.

Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

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.

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

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

Tone has the living soul.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

We need to learn to observe and listen to people more to get to know them.

What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

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

I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

Tone matters more than words.

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.

How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.