Karen Salmansohn Quotes

When I'm in a bad mood, I feel better listening to someone else who sounds like they're in a bad mood. That was especially true when I was a kid, and I was mad at my mom or dad for whatever reason.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

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 the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

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

If others think I am good with myself, they will, in turn, feel good about themselves.

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.

It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.

I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead to you claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves.

Who is it can read a woman?

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.

If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they're likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.

When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.