Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

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.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

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

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

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

I love body language.

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

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.

I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

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

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

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 communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools.

You know the thing about a picture being worth a thousand words? A look can be worth a million.

Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.