George Santayana Quotes

A character is as much about what you do as what you say.

So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.

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

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.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.

We want to watch what he does, not listen to what he says.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.

Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

Handsome is as handsome does

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

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

What you are speaks louder than what you say.

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done.

There's nothing better than actually getting to watch the person and see his or her mannerisms.

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.