Myles Munroe Quotes

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

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.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

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

It's not just about the words you use, but the way you use them, and the message that puts over. Also your face too and the way you project your message. If you're telling the group to stay calm, be good, and you have beads of sweat dripping down your forehead, you're in trouble.

I did realise that when you talk with a straight face, you come across as someone bolder than somebody who bats her eyelids a lot.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.

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

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

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.

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

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

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.

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

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

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.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

I love body language.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

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.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.