Michael Carter-Williams Quotes

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.

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

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

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

I love body language.

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

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

Body language is more powerful than words.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

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

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

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

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I'm animated.

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

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.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

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.'

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

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.