Travis Bradberry Quotes

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

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.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

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.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.

You don’t address their brains. You address their hearts.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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.

'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.

You need to talk like your boss and copy their actions. Like, if they cross their legs, you do the same. If people think you're like them, you're more inclined to get what you want out of them.

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.

I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.