Anthony Trollope Quotes

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.

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

The art of reading physical tells isn't an exact science.

William Regal once told us he people-watched when he was in the ring. He would see things that people would do. And if they annoyed him, chances are they would annoy someone else. A lot of times I'll just people watch when I'm traveling or at the airport or living everyday life.

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

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

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

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.

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

I used to make my living by understanding people. And the way I learned to understand them was by observing them. I would sit in a train station or a bus station or a restaurant. And I would watch people. I would watch how they related to one another. I would try to get some insight into them and make them as predictable as I could in my mind.

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.

Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.

I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

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?

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.