John Dewey Quotes

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

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

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

I love observing people.

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.

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

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

I love observing both vocally and by sight. So I take on a lot of those elements of people around me.

What makes characters so interesting when you're an actor or a dancer is to watch and observe how people walk and move and speak. Are they cat-like? Are they walrus-like? Why does that person bother me, and why do I think they are the way they are?

When I walk around, I look at people and observe people.

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

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

I love to people watch.

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.

When I talk to people and I get animated, I touch them and am very physically involved. It's actually been really hard, but it's an acting challenge.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!.

I'm an affectionate person I'm a person who hugs, hugs people and I shake hands.

I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around