Italo Calvino Quotes

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.

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

Actions lie louder than words.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.