Jonathan Swift Quotes

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

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

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.

Body language is more powerful than words.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

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.

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

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

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

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

The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

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

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

My body language, it doesn't have anything to do with my coaches or my teammates.

I hate it when she tabs a line," Ivy whispered to Kisten in the corner. "You ever see anything freakier than that?" "You should see the face she makes when she—" "Shut up, Kist!" I exclaimed, my eyes flashing open to find him grinning at me.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

Eye contact is a method utilised by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Many women find it difficult to look a man directly in the eyes, not because of shyness, but because a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.

I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language