Paulo Freire Quotes

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

I love body language.

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

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

Let me hear your body talk.

Body language is more powerful than words.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

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.

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.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

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 thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I'm animated.

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

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

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

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 like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

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

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

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

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