Amy Cuddy Quotes

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

The first thing that I see in a woman are her eyes. Sorry, it sounds shallow, but eyes say a lot about a person.

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

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.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

I'm good at reading people.

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.

When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that.

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.

One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men don't have to.

I did realise that when you talk with a straight face, you come across as someone bolder than somebody who bats her eyelids a lot.

I don't want to say 'gullible,' but when I saw someone, I always thought that person is the way they present themselves.

It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake - fairly or unfairly - get me off to a bad start with a person.

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

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

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For example a smile can mean you're amused, happy, grateful, or satisfied. You can smile to comfort someone. You can smile because you're content or because you're in love. A grimace or a grin look similar to a smile, but they mean entirely different things. Imagine trying to teach someone how to smile. Imagine trying to describe what different smiles mean and when, precisely, to use them in conversation. It's harder than learning to walk.