Travis Bradberry Quotes

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

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

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

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

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.

I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

I love body language.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.