Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

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.

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.

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

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

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

I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.

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

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

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

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

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

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.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

The body says what words cannot.

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

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